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Williams holds out hope for reversal of execution
Knight Ridder News ^
| 2/9/5
| Jessie Seyfer
Posted on 02/09/2005 7:48:06 AM PST by SmithL
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posted on
02/09/2005 7:48:07 AM PST
by
SmithL
To: SmithL
Reversing an excecution? I assume he means reverse the decision, because reversing death is something we can't yet do...
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posted on
02/09/2005 7:50:28 AM PST
by
RockinRight
(It's NOT too early to start talking about 2006...or 2008.)
To: SmithL
Williams holds out hope for reversal of execution Well, if he has already been executed, isn't it too late?
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posted on
02/09/2005 7:51:31 AM PST
by
Michael.SF.
(Someday I will fondly look back on the day Hillary's career ended. Starting tomorrow, I hope.)
To: SmithL
Send him to TX. We don't take 24 years any more.
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posted on
02/09/2005 7:51:44 AM PST
by
TXBSAFH
(Never underestimate the power of human stupidity--Robert Heinlein)
To: TXBSAFH
"Most states take forever to execute someone. In Texas, we put in an express lane." -- Ron White
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posted on
02/09/2005 7:53:57 AM PST
by
Michael.SF.
(Someday I will fondly look back on the day Hillary's career ended. Starting tomorrow, I hope.)
To: SmithL
His being executed is the best message he can send to youths if he doesn't want them to follow in his footsteps.
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posted on
02/09/2005 7:54:35 AM PST
by
aynrandfreak
(If 9/11 didn't change you, you're a bad human being)
To: RockinRight
But that's why he's hoping!
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posted on
02/09/2005 7:57:08 AM PST
by
RetroWarrior
("We count it death to falter, not to die")
To: TXBSAFH
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posted on
02/09/2005 7:58:52 AM PST
by
cweese
(Hook 'em Horns!!!)
To: SmithL
"Even the most wretched can change," he said. "I can tell you what redemption means for me. It's a process of mea culpa, being able to acknowledge one's faults and vowing not to repeat them and reaching out to others."
"Through the years, Williams has challenged his conviction on a variety of grounds. He has claimed to have brain damage, and his most recent appeal argued that the makeup of the jury that convicted him was skewed because it did not contain any African-Americans"
Doesn't really sound like a mea-culpa to me. Blame someone else, IE jury composition, for your own heinous crimes.
You had your 24 years, years the 4 people you murdered in cold blood did not have. Time to go.
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posted on
02/09/2005 8:03:43 AM PST
by
kc2theline
(Support our troops and the CIC that sends them to defend us.)
To: kc2theline
"Even the most wretched can change,"
Nowhere even near the point. You were issued the death penalty. I'm thinking rehabilitation was not the object of your sentencing.
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posted on
02/09/2005 8:09:28 AM PST
by
L98Fiero
To: SmithL
Yet, from the confines of his closet of a prison cell, Williams, 51, has campaigned heartily to keep kids away from gangs. He has spoken to roomfuls of young people over the phone and written several children's books describing the prison life that awaits them if they turn to violence. His work inspired a Swiss parliament member, as well as Notre Dame de Namur University Professor Phil Gasper, to nominate him for a Nobel Peace Prize.This would never have happened had he never commited the horrendous crimes and got caught and convicted in the first place.
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posted on
02/09/2005 8:10:00 AM PST
by
frogjerk
To: aynrandfreak
Ever see "Angels with dirty Faces" with James Cagney? Sort of the same ending.
To: SmithL
Wouldn't want to jump to conclusions here, but those victims' names all sound kinda Asian to me. Pure coincidence? Or racially motivated hate crimes?
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posted on
02/09/2005 8:12:59 AM PST
by
Norman Conquest
(Kerry "honors a faith tradition." Bush believes in "God." You do the math.)
To: cubreporter
That is exactly the movie I was thinking of. I was having trouble remembering the name though. Ah, Sundays watching "The Bowery Boys" after I got back from church. Slip, where are you now?
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posted on
02/09/2005 8:35:59 AM PST
by
lafroste
(gravity is not a force, dangit)
To: SmithL
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posted on
02/09/2005 8:38:54 AM PST
by
ErnBatavia
(ErnBatavia, Boxer, Pelosi, Thomas...the ultimate nightmare Menage a Quatro)
To: SmithL
It's very simple. God will forgive him. California cannot.
To: cweese
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posted on
02/09/2005 8:43:28 AM PST
by
ErnBatavia
(ErnBatavia, Boxer, Pelosi, Thomas...the ultimate nightmare Menage a Quatro)
To: ErnBatavia
That's an amusing site. They used to publish that info. on the TDCJ website, but I guess too many people were jamming their servers up after each execution, so they removed it.
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posted on
02/09/2005 8:55:16 AM PST
by
cweese
(Hook 'em Horns!!!)
To: cubreporter
I love old movies. I'll have to check that one out, thanks!
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posted on
02/09/2005 9:03:12 AM PST
by
aynrandfreak
(If 9/11 didn't change you, you're a bad human being)
To: aynrandfreak
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posted on
02/09/2005 9:45:06 AM PST
by
packrat35
(reality is for people who can't face science fiction)
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