Charles Manson, Convicted killer. (AP-Photo) 1986
Cult leader Charles Manson is in grave condition in a California hospital. TMZ says Manson was brought to a Bakersfield hospital days ago, and is reportedly close to death. The 83-year-old Manson is serving a life sentence for ordering the brutal killings of seven people in 1969. He was originally sentenced to death with several of his followers, but the sentences were commuted to life when the death penalty was briefly outlawed in California in 1972.