Posted on 11/29/2005 7:33:25 AM PST by NapkinUser
Los Angeles' top law enforcement officers today urged Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to have no mercy for Stanley Tookie Williams, the gang co-founder convicted of four murders who is to be executed Dec. 13.
Williams is a "coldblooded killer" who has "left his mark forever on our society by co-founding one of the most vicious, brutal gangs in existence, the Crips," according to the statement urging Schwarzenegger to deny clemency.
The letter was from Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Steve Cooley, Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton and Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca.
"Williams now seeks mercy, the very mercy he so callously denied" his four victims, according to the document, designed to counter Williams' clemency petition submitted this month.
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Normally I see that way, too. But this guy has done incredible work. Who knows how many lives, even cops' lives, he's saved due to his peace efforts. That I think qualifies for an exception to the rule.
Well, would qualify IMHO if he owned up to his crime.
End of story, in my book. If the Governor grants clemency to this schmuck, his future in politics is history.
I wish I had a dollar for every "jailhouse conversion". The problem is that it is largely artificially induced by their current helplessness.
Once they get out from under control (or if they don't get what they're angling for), they go back to their old bad ways with distressing frequency.
I heard on the news that Arnold IS goig to consider clemency. Why doesn't he just spit in the victims families faces while he is at it?
The people of California will never be safe if this execution does not go forward.
Clemency would signal a green light to every sadistic urban barbarian out to kill for a thrill.
He wasn't even there.
Fry Tookie and Mumia too!
Oh, I forgot! They have protection since birth.
Amen, Mom. Some of these Bible "Thumpers" (a name I apply to myself) seem to forget seem to forget that Dimas (so-called "good thief") had his own jailhouse conversion and was forgiven and saved by the Big Man Himself. But Dimas still had to "render unto Ceasar" the punishment given him.
BTW, I think his name is traditionally spelled "Dismas" and means "sunset" - but his name (and the name of the "bad thief", Gesmas) don't appear until well along in the 12th century.
An interesting medieval legend that had wide currency was that on the Flight into Egypt, Mary and Joseph were held up by a couple of thieves - Dismas and Gesmas. Dismas bribed Gesmas not to harm the Holy Family, and the baby Christ then prophesized that they would be crucified along with him in Jerusalem.
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