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LA judge signs death warrant for Crips gang co-founder ('Tookie' has a date on Dec. 13th)
ap on Monterey Herald ^ | 10/24/05 | Tim Molloy - ap

Posted on 10/24/2005 11:18:46 AM PDT by NormsRevenge

LOS ANGELES - A judge signed a death warrant Monday for convicted killer and Crips co-founder Stanley "Tookie" Williams, rejecting his attorneys' request for a nine-day delay in his execution date.

Williams is scheduled to die Dec. 13 at San Quentin prison for four murders committed in 1979.

His lawyers asked that the date be set for Dec. 22 so they would have more time to ask Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for clemency. Williams was sentenced in 1981 to die for four killings during two holdups.

"This case has taken over 24 years to get to this point," Superior Court Judge William R. Pounders said. "That is a long delay in itself and I would hate to add to that delay."

The Dec. 13 execution date means attorneys have until Nov. 8 to submit the clemency request to the governor. The judge said Williams' lawyers could ask the governor for more time to tell him about the good work Williams has done since renouncing his gang past.

Since being sentenced to die, Williams has written a series of children's books in his effort to curtail youth gang violence. He has been nominated five times for a Nobel Peace prize and four times for a Nobel prize in literature.

Dozens of death penalty opponents held a quiet demonstration outside the courtroom calling for mercy. They held a banner praising Williams' work to prevent gang violence that read, "Keeping him alive saves lives!"

One of Williams' attorneys, Peter Fleming Jr., said he has never handled a death penalty case before and he asked for more time to ensure that Williams' legal team could do everything possible to help him.

"More than a few people have said he is worth saving," Fleming said.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; cofounder; crips; deathwarrant; gang; judge; losangeles; signs; tookie
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To: NormsRevenge

Anyone have a pic of the perp?


41 posted on 10/24/2005 12:01:19 PM PDT by AxelPaulsenJr (Pray Daily For Our Troops and President Bush and the SAPPS)
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To: cgk

I wonder if those are signed or read by the prez or if they're sent out like Congressional pork bills( fill in the blank/nobody read it.)


42 posted on 10/24/2005 12:05:11 PM PDT by Rakkasan1 (Peace de Resistance! Viva la Paper towels!)
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To: Thinkin' Gal; Minnesocold; Jeremiah Jr; Lijahsbubbe; dighton; Yehuda
Williams is scheduled to die Dec. 13 at San Quentin prison for four murders committed in 1979.

Whoosh!

43 posted on 10/24/2005 12:06:14 PM PDT by aculeus
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To: aculeus

“We’ll inject for no crime before its time.”


44 posted on 10/24/2005 12:08:10 PM PDT by dighton
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To: NormsRevenge
One of Williams' attorneys, Peter Fleming Jr., said he has never handled a death penalty case before

Put up an inexperienced front guy to set up your 'ineffective assistance of counsel ' argument on appeal.

The thug has only evaded justice for a quarter of a century. Of course his lawyers haven't had enough time yet.

45 posted on 10/24/2005 12:14:18 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: flashbunny

"Uhh! Awww, Tookie Tookie now! (King Floyd moment)"

Tookie, Tookie? Why would a badass gang banger take his name from George of the Jungles birdy telephone?


46 posted on 10/24/2005 12:18:13 PM PDT by commonasdirt (Reading DU so you won't hafta)
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To: gridlock

How about a Christmas present for the nation?December twenty fifth sounds like a good date for the execution.


47 posted on 10/24/2005 12:29:14 PM PDT by em2vn
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To: AxelPaulsenJr

Barf alert: He also has a website: www.tookie.com

48 posted on 10/24/2005 12:50:15 PM PDT by Minnesocold (Truth itself is the one enemy against which liberalism cannot prevail. -Christopher Adamo)
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To: EagleUSA
Williams was sentenced in 1981 to die for four killings during two holdups.

I just wonder how many other murders he got away with. I'm sure he ordered many more or participated as a memeber of the gang. I personally don't understand how you can be sentenced in 1981 and only get a somewhat firm date in 2005. Our legal system is broke beyond repair.

49 posted on 10/24/2005 1:12:34 PM PDT by AmusedBystander
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To: ncountylee

Odd. They kill the only person on Death Row who prevents more killings.


50 posted on 10/24/2005 1:14:48 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: GeorgiaMike; A CA Guy; caver
"I am for this in principle, but it costs so much to kill off one of these SOBs that I wonder if it might not be far cheaper to house them for life with little if any human rights."

I'm with you, actually. Not to mention that all the appeals in death cases clog up the courts, thus denying swift justice to perpatrators of other crimes.

Right; just give in, and accept that BS, instead of working to fix the system.

The solution is not to roll over and give them life, but to do what is necessary to stop the abuses of the system that keeps them alive for decades.

BTW, I think another title in his series was Hairy Potter and the Goblet of Coke.

51 posted on 10/24/2005 2:01:44 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Mohamophages of the world, unite!)
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To: caver

The nomination is free. Anybody can nominate anybody. I am sure that our freedom loving liberal intellectuals in Berkeley were falling all over themselves to nominate a murderer for the Nobel Peace and Literature Prize.

He didn't win anything, except a few more years of life that he denied his victims.

No loss here. Move on.


52 posted on 10/24/2005 5:27:32 PM PDT by Lacroix
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To: AppyPappy

He could have prevented the killings when he was a young man. He could have saved more lives by not doing what he did. All of the useless excrement that he conjured up and published while sitting in a prison cell isn't worth a hair of one of his victims.


53 posted on 10/24/2005 5:38:23 PM PDT by Lacroix
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To: NormsRevenge

One of the reasons that there are over 600 on California's death row. NO CASE should take this long.I bet one day someone will use the appeal that "case took so long to get to death sentence" that that in itself was cruel and unusual punishment. Maybe it already has been used. I can not understand why they can't pass a law limiting the amount of appeals a death row person gets before execution is carried out.


54 posted on 10/24/2005 5:41:30 PM PDT by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: NormsRevenge
He has been nominated five times for a Nobel Peace prize and four times for a Nobel prize in literature.

Personally I'm shocked he didn't win a few of them.
55 posted on 10/24/2005 8:18:29 PM PDT by festus (The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
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To: NormsRevenge
It will be only matter of time we start seeing Glover, Asner, Farrell, Jackson, Sharpton speaking for clemency.
56 posted on 10/25/2005 6:47:58 PM PDT by CurlyQ (Go Packers)
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To: Paved Paradise

Yes, and Jimmy Carter got a Nobel prize because.... well, not because he earned it, but because the left wanted to slap George Bush in the face.


57 posted on 10/31/2005 3:45:50 PM PST by Imnotalib
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To: Dahoser

SIGN THE TOOKIE WILLIAMS PETITION... and leave them an appropriate comment!!!
http://www.petitiononline.com/stw4804/petition.html


58 posted on 10/31/2005 3:48:33 PM PST by Imnotalib
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