Posted on 11/21/2005 8:04:00 AM PST by SmithL
Williams, who was a hard-bodied weight lifter as well as a notorious gang member, recounted the brief encounter in a book published last year: Arnold Schwarzenegger was so impressed with Williams' physique, he noted that Williams' biceps were as big as thighs.
Nearly 30 years later, the two men are again crossing paths.
With the world watching, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger must decide in the next few weeks whether Williams will live or die.
Williams, 51, the co-founder of the Crips gang and a four-time murderer who has become an anti-gang crusader and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, is scheduled to be executed at San Quentin State Prison on Dec. 13.
With court appeals nearly exhausted, Williams has pointed to the children's books and gang-peace initiatives he has produced from behind prison walls as proof he is a reformed man and worthy of clemency. Sunday was the last day of a weeklong "Tookie Williams Teach-in" that included a rally outside the gates of San Quentin on Saturday featuring the rapper Snoop Dogg.
Prosecutors argue that a man responsible for four shotgun murders who was involved in nearly a dozen violent incidents in his first decade in prison -- before he changed his ways -- deserves the sentence a jury recommended.
After a year of plummeting popularity and squabbles with Democrats and labor unions over sometimes-arcane ideas about ways to change government, Schwarzenegger now turns to a more basic and far more gut-wrenching task.
He must contemplate crime and punishment, redemption and race.
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Somehow, I don't think Ahhhnold is losing ANY sleep over this piece of human waste.
More wishful articles from the LibRat press.
Terminate him - and Mumia too.
I'll probably get hammered for it but it wouldn't bother me if his sentenced was changed to life without parole.
Life Without Parole until Dec. 13.
Exactly.
This scumbag has already lived 25 years longer than he deserved.
"Took, Took, Tookie goodbye..."
Somehow, I think Ahhnold is going to let him off. At heart he's a Euroweenie.
I think Tookie should finally meet Justice, but I believe Ahnold will grant a reprieve and/or commute sentence.
Don't think that because Arnold is a tough guy movie actor he has what it takes. There is a whole lot of liberal in him.
What about the 4 lives that this goon snuffed out? Kill Stanley Tookie Williams ASAP and send the bill for the legal costs of the appeals, etc. to the ACLU.
If he does, he can kiss re-election goodbye.
No problem hang him,on TV
I don't think the whole election will turn on this, but on the economic policies of his. I think he'll say that Tookies efforts after being on death row are worth the commutation, as an example to others.
I'm fine with that, as long as you agree to pay for 100% of the expenses he incurs from here on out.
Tookie didn't.
Why should Arnold?
Too- too- tookie, goodbyyyeeee!
Send em to Texas y'all. It's not a hard decision. Although, Huntsville's been a little busy lately.
And take responsibility for any further murders committed by Williams.
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