Snoop Dogg: Crips Founder Shouldn't Be Executed

ClickonDetroit ^ | November 19, 2005

[ShadowDancer]

Snoop Dogg: Crips Founder Shouldn't Be Executed

POSTED: 10:20 pm EST November 19, 2005

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. -- Rapper Snoop Dogg is urging California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to grant clemency to a gang founder who is scheduled to be executed next month.

Snoop Dogg said Crips co-founder Stanley "Tookie" Williams inspired him to work with young people.

The rapper and former Crips member spoke to about 1,000 people outside San Quentin, where Williams awaits execution on Dec. 13 for the murders of four people in 1979.

Williams has exhausted his appeals and is seeking clemency from Schwarzenegger. The governor has said he is "dreading" the decision.

Williams founded the Crips in 1971 in Los Angeles. In the following years, the gang battled with its rival, the Bloods, for territory and control of the drug trade.

In prison, however, Williams has gained international acclaim for writing children's books about the dangers of gang life. An award-winning television movie starring Jamie Foxx, "Redemption," was based on his life.

[goldstategop]

The more idiotic intellectuals urge murderers be spared, the more ardent I am in demanding they be executed.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[randita]

The new Mumia.

[willyd]

How many people have been beaten, raped, stabbed or shot as a result of his forming this gang? If we won't let Madonna get away with trying to change her image with a few children's books why in the world would we let this guy? The only thing Ahnold should be thinking about is the one liner he is going to deliver to the press after he gets it. "Vats dat you say? Today is Thursday...for Tookie it vas Fry Day..."

[FerdieMurphy]

Anyone with a name like Snoop Dogg should be executed.

So sorry Mr. Dogg.

[RushLake]

"The more idiotic intellectuals urge murderers be spared, the more ardent I am in demanding they be executed."

I understand and support your point, but to classify the pos poop Dogg as an intellectual, even an idiotic one, is a stretch.

[AHerald]

That settles it then.

[DogBarkTree]

You beat me to it. "Snoopy and "Tookie" should be taken to the dog pound and be put down. I couldnt believe it when Lee Iaccoca did a commercial with SD.

[chemicalman]

Snoop Dogg said Crips co-founder Stanley "Tookie" Williams inspired him to work with young people.

Yeah. He inspired him to work with teenage girls in making "Girls Gone Wild" featuring Snoop Dogg.

[DB]

Ya, that definitely was a low point.

[Matthius Freewill]

I heard somewhere that he didn't make the slightest effort to reach out to children, or write any children's books until his last appeal was rejected. This was plan B. Fry the MF already!!

[visualops]

No surprise a murderer like Snoop Dogg would stick up for this murderer.

[Libloather]

In this undated file photo, Stanley 'Tookie' Williams poses at age 29 in the exercise yard at San Quentin Prison. Williams, a founder of the notorious Crips street gang, is scheduled to be executed next month and is asking Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for clemency. A 13-page petition seeking to save the life of Stanley 'Tookie' Williams was delivered to the governor today. (AP Photo/Courtesty of Williams Family, File)

This undated handout photo shows death row inmate Stanley 'Tookie' Williams. Williams, a death row convict who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, appealed to embattled California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for clemency from execution.(AFP/HO/File)

Death Row inmate Stanley 'Tookie' Williams sits in a visiting cell at San Quentin prison November 16, 2005, after granting Reuters a rare interview. Slated to be executed on December 13, Williams, founder of the Crips gang in Los Angeles, says he is innocent of the four murders for which he was convicted and thus will not apologize for the crimes. Picture taken November 16, 2005. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY (Photograph taken by prison guard in accordance with San Quentin prison visitation regulations) (California Department of Corrections/Handout/Reuters)

Rapper Snoop Dogg (back C) participates in a protest for Stanley 'Tookie' Williams in San Quentin, California November 19, 2005. Snoop Dogg, once a member of the Crips gang, called for authorities to spare Stanley 'Tookie' Williams, the gang's co-founder, as hundreds gathered outside the prison to protest against his planned execution next month. Williams received the death penalty for killing four people in 1979. REUTERS/Kimberly White

Deshawn Lee Thompson, 7, sitting, of Richmond Calif., joins a rally for death row inmate Stanley Tookie Williams outside of the San Quentin State Penitentiary Saturday, Nov. 19, 2005 in San Quentin, Calif. Williams, co-founder of the Crips gang, was sent to death row after being convicted in 1981 for murdering four people in Los Angeles. He is scheduled for execution on Dec. 13, 2005. (AP Photo/Omar Vega)

A woman holds a sign for Stanley 'Tookie' Williams in San Quentin, California November 19, 2005. Rapper Snoop Dogg, once a member of the Crips gang, called for authorities to spare Stanley 'Tookie' Williams, the gang's co-founder, as hundreds gathered outside the prison to protest against his planned execution next month. Williams received the death penalty for killing four people in 1979. REUTERS/Kimberly White

[ThanhPhero]

Snoop Dogg: Crips Founder Shouldn't Be Executed

Everything useful here is implicit in this title. No one using such a name who was not born with it, could have anything useful to hear.

[little jeremiah]

Those picture make it clear that it is imperative that the murderer be duly executed. Who are those women dressed in some kind of nun-like garb?

[OneLoyalAmerican]

Terminate "Tookie" bump.

[twas]

For the life of me, I will NEVER understand why the thugs, criminals, and murderers in the black community are looked upon as heroes and subject to praise and accolades.

This is a striking difference between black communities and white communities. White communities applaud when criminals are caught and removed. Black communities end up supporting criminals and demanding they be let free to presumably bring more crime and violence to black communities.

[Sociopathocracy]

Looks like some sort of Nation of Islam garb.

[wolficatZ]

Don't be suprised if Arnold caves...

[little jeremiah]

I was wondering that.

If anyone has an email for Schwarzenegger put it up. He needs to hear from those who want justice served.