Posted on 11/20/2005 4:22:07 AM PST by 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.
Mark
I can imagine the tough choice that the Nobel Peace Prize committee had to make... Hmmmm. Tookie Williams or Jimmy Carter... Convicted murderer, or communist tyrant apologist... Ah, what the heck. Let's just give it to that terrorist, Yasser Arafat!
Mark
Don't these people have jobs or lives at all?
It's interesting the choices people make that lead them to strange places.
Free will is like laying down railroad tracks. We can lay them in different directions, but once they're laid down, we gotta ride them where they go.
Tookus needs to ride his into the hereafter, soon. And the people supporting him need to examine their own tracks, because by taking his side, they're going to share some of his destination.
First things first. I'm black. And if this man murdered those people, then he deserves death.
Seeing that picture with that woman and the sign, "God's in control. No Execution" just makes me want to vomit. Yes, God is in control. And if she were half way acquainted with God, she would know that He gave authority to governments to bear the sword for those who do evil. Last time I checked, a sword wasn't used to "rehabiliate"! Tookie Williams showed his contempt for God when he murdered four people, people who were made in His image. To murder another human being is a direct assault on God Himself, IMO and that's why God demanded that murderers be put to death. The fact that this guy still claims he's innocent (even as all the evidence and, from what I read somewhere, his own BIG MOUTH proved that he did it) shows me we aren't dealing with a person whose elevator reaches the top floor! To even invoke the name of God in association with this piece of filth is appalling!
GOD'S IN CONTROL! NO CLEMENCY!
I believe Tookie's stepmother said the same thing.
Well spoken! Although I am not a proponent of the death penalty, I do feel that there are other ways to reform truly convicted murderers instead of allowing them the right to free cable TV, food and shelter on taxpayers dollars. For instance, throw all of the murderers on a desolute island devoid of any amenities, clothes, vegetation or wildlife in the Bering Straits (brrrr) zillions of miles away from land and let them play survivor. Should make for a great new CBS reality series!
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