Former Charles Manson follower Robert Beausoleil — who was among those convicted of a musician’s 1969 stabbing death — was denied parole Tuesday for three years.
Beausoleil had been found suitable for parole in 2019 and 2025, but Gov. Gavin Newsom subsequently reversed both of those decisions, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
The 78-year-old inmate was initially sentenced to death in connection with the July 26, 1969, slaying of Gary Hinman at his Topanga Canyon home.
But Beausoleil’s sentence — along with those of Manson and a number of his followers — was later commuted to life in prison following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on new requirements for capital cases.