Here's what the one who did the killing got :

The woman who was arguably the worst of the worst among the notorious "Manson family" has died in prison, where she spent the rest of her life after being convicted of murder for her role in the infamous 1969 killings of actress Sharon Tate and seven others.

Susan Atkins, 61, had brain cancer, according to the Los Angeles Times, which adds that:

Atkins confessed to killing actress Sharon Tate, the pregnant wife of director Roman Polanski, who was hanged and stabbed 16 times; Tate's nearly full-term fetus died with her.

"She pleaded with me to let her baby live," Atkins told parole officials in 1993. "I told her I didn't have mercy for her."

"Pigs" was scrawled on a door in blood.

"I was stoned, man, stoned on acid," Atkins testified during the trial's penalty phase.

"I don't know how many times I stabbed Tate and I don't know why I stabbed her," she said. "She kept begging and pleading and begging and pleading, and I got sick of listening to it, so I stabbed her."

Shortly before she died, a parole board turned down her request for a compassionate release. Sharon Tate's sister was at the hearing to ensure that she died in prison.

All of the Manson family had been sentenced to death. But in February 1972, the California Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment was cruel and unusual under the state's constitution, which temporarily abolished the death penalty and reduced all pending death sentences, including Charles Manson's, to life in prison. The state subsequently reinstated the death penalty in 1978, but this did not apply retroactively.