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Clemency sought for Crips founder set to die [Nobel-nominee Tookie Williams]
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| 11/8/5
| KIM CURTIS
Posted on 11/08/2005 12:55:26 PM PST by SmithL
San Francisco -- The petition to save the life of condemned former gang leader Stanley "Tookie" Williams reads more like poetry than a legal document beginning and ending with a plea for the governor to carry out "an act of grace" and stop next month's scheduled execution.
"We seek clemency for the man Stanley Williams has become, for the good work he has done, and for the good work he will continue to do," his lawyers wrote in the 13-page document delivered Tuesday to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. "Stanley Williams stands in the shadow of death. We seek an act of grace."
Last month, a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge set a Dec. 13 execution date for Williams, 51, who was sentenced to death in 1981 for fatally shooting Albert Owens, a Whittier convenience store worker. He also was convicted of killing two Los Angeles motel owners and their daughter during a robbery.
His appeals were exhausted in early October after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case. However, a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals suggested in a 2002 decision that Williams was a good candidate for clemency.
Williams, a founding member of the Crips gang, decided to change his life during six years in solitary confinement, according to the petition.
"He dedicated his life to doing whatever he could, from where he was, to end gang violence to warn others of the errors of the path he had followed," the petition says.
He decided in 1993 to write children's books. Ten books, including Williams'"Tookie Speaks Out Against Gang Violence" series and his autobiography, "Blue Rage, Black Redemption," were included with the petition. Lawyers also sent a copy of the television movie about Williams' life, "Redemption: The Stan 'Tookie' Williams Story,"
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: gangbanger; killhim; murderer; nobelnominee; tookie
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posted on
11/08/2005 12:55:28 PM PST
by
SmithL
To: SmithL
I don't figure that his debt to society has been quite repaid.
2
posted on
11/08/2005 12:57:40 PM PST
by
jackbenimble
(Import the third world, become the third world)
To: SmithL
3
posted on
11/08/2005 12:57:41 PM PST
by
clee1
(We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
To: SmithL
He appears to have tried to redeem himself. It sure takes them a long time to find that chair.
4
posted on
11/08/2005 12:58:55 PM PST
by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: clee1
Kill him, his books can go on giving after he is gone!
5
posted on
11/08/2005 12:59:11 PM PST
by
Left Coast Refugee
(Abandoned by the GOP on the Left Coast)
To: SmithL
sentenced to death in 1981... 24 years....
6
posted on
11/08/2005 12:59:40 PM PST
by
theDentist
(The Dems have put all their eggs in one basket-case: Howard "Belltower" Dean.)
To: SmithL
Maybe that same group of Euroweenies will break him out of prison, too.
7
posted on
11/08/2005 12:59:40 PM PST
by
pabianice
To: SmithL
"..."He dedicated his life to doing whatever he could, from where he was, to end gang violence to warn others of the errors of the path he had followed," ..."
"He dedicated his life to doing whatever he could, from getting the needle shoved up a vein. SEE YA! Have a nice trip, scumbag.
8
posted on
11/08/2005 1:00:02 PM PST
by
NCC-1701
(RADICAL ISLAM IS A CULT. IT MUST BE ERADICATED ASAP)
To: SmithL
Couldn't his termination date be moved to Nov 13? The less of him [and the likes of him], the better for the rest of us.
9
posted on
11/08/2005 1:00:37 PM PST
by
GSlob
To: SmithL
If he were truly a reformed person, wouldn't he accept that his sentence is a final example of how being a gang-banger is a dead end?
The world will never know what additional good the people he murdered could have achieved if their lives hadn't been so casually ended by this "former" thug. Bye-bye Tookie.
10
posted on
11/08/2005 1:01:12 PM PST
by
whd23
To: SmithL
"His appeals were exhausted in early October after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case. However, a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals suggested in a 2002 decision that Williams was a good candidate for clemency."To the 9th Circus: Surely you jest!
11
posted on
11/08/2005 1:02:12 PM PST
by
carl in alaska
(Blog blog bloggin' on heaven's door.....Kerry's speeches are just one big snore.)
To: SmithL
12
posted on
11/08/2005 1:02:16 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(Nature abhors a vacuum. So do cats.)
To: SmithL
"He dedicated his life to doing whatever he could, from where he was, to end gang violence to warn others of the errors of the path he had followed," Hasn't done much ... we've got MS-13 activity in rural Virginia.
Fry him.
Maybe that will 'send a message' to gang-bangers and wannabes.
13
posted on
11/08/2005 1:03:05 PM PST
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: carl in alaska
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posted on
11/08/2005 1:03:25 PM PST
by
SmithL
(There are a lot of people that hate Bush more than they hate terrorists)
To: SmithL
"We seek clemency for the man Stanley Williams has become, for the good work he has done, and for the good work he will continue to do," OK, fine, but the man that Stanley Williams WAS still has to accept the punishment for the heinous crimes that he did.
15
posted on
11/08/2005 1:05:16 PM PST
by
VRWCmember
(hard-core, politically angry, hyperconservative, and loaded with vitriol about everything liberal.)
To: pabianice
The German group that were "persons of interest" in the Texas case were cleared of involvement.
16
posted on
11/08/2005 1:09:36 PM PST
by
GAB-1955
(Proudly confusing editors and readers since 1981!)
To: SmithL
Lawyers also sent a copy of the television movie about Williams' life, "Redemption: The Stan 'Tookie' Williams Story,"Nothing like a TV "documentary" to exonerate your client! (Pfft)
To: SmithL
I don't see how this idiot could possibly
have a case. Who in their right mind actually
SITS on a public toilet WITHOUT some kind of
paper protection between his arse and the seat?
Didn't this nut ever have Health class in school?
18
posted on
11/08/2005 1:14:08 PM PST
by
Grendel9
(uick)
To: Grendel9
My apology to this site. I was typing a note
to the succeeding blurb.
Sorry.
19
posted on
11/08/2005 1:15:08 PM PST
by
Grendel9
(uick)
To: SmithL
This is one major murdering scumbag. He personally murdered four people, and his gang is reponsible for thousands of murders. He has helped destroy a large part of a community. CRIPS INFO. These scumbags have dolls and a model of the week. Tookie should have been fried a very long time ago. You don't do a little writing and urge people not to be violent and think that gets you off the hook. Fry, you bastard.
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posted on
11/08/2005 1:15:52 PM PST
by
doug from upland
(David Kendall -- protecting the Clintons one lie at a time)
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