Posted on 11/30/2005 2:35:54 PM PST by churchillbuff
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said he would consider granting clemency to convicted killer Stanley Tookie Williams, the Crips gang co-founder who became an anti-gang activist while in prison.
The governor said Friday he would meet Dec. 8 in a private hearing at his Sacramento office with Williams' lawyers, Los Angeles County prosecutors and others involved.
Schwarzenegger, vested with constitutional authority to grant mercy and commute a death sentence to life without parole, is not legally obligated to hold a public or private hearing, and decides clemency requests on a "case-by-case basis," said his spokeswoman, Margita Thompson.
Williams, 51, faces death by lethal injection on Dec. 13 for murdering four people in 1979 a Whittier convenience store clerk and three people at a Pico Rivera motel less than two weeks later. He denies his guilt, and has also asked the California Supreme Court to reopen his case, alleging shoddy forensics wrongly connected him to three of the murders.
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Thanks; I've looked at that material, I thought you may have had access to the original police file.
Arnold is a liberal at heart and I am confidant he will do the wrong thing.
I hope that I am wrong but my gut feeling is that Arnold will grant clemency.
If they riot, they riot.
That is what we have cops and jailhouses for.
(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.")
CA has riots when the Raiders win....
I agree with your points, kajinwad. Were, I Arnold, I wanna know if the Lawyer had any money on bets of an after riot.
You could be very right.
There are so many others more deserving. I keep thinking back to Karla Faye Tucker. She was a changed woman. She could have helped a lot of people. She radiated goodness, and she kept her mouth shut about whether she wanted to be pardoned, and when she wasn't, she said she had to pay for what she had done, and that she knew that she was forgiven, and looked forward to meeting our Lord. It made me very sad when Karla Faye was executed.
It will make me very angry if this piece of refuse gets off the hook. I hate California.
if he grants clemency he will be the girlieman in politics
I suppose that with the hiring of the radical lesbian from the Gray-out Davis team for Chief of Staff, many of us aren't so sure he won't commute the sentence as a pander to his hollywood buds so he can get a job when he gets booted out of orifice.
I feel the same way about Karla Faye, but that's Texas, whole different country.
Would you read a children's book by this mofo to your children? Reminds me of Mr. Robertson's Neighborhood.
The final, #1 reason why Arnold should pardon Tookie?
#1. Brothers are gonna F*ck things up in S. Central if he don'. They's gonna be violens. They's gon' be trouble. It's been brewing. I been expecting it all summer. They gonna make South Central look like the 9th Ward.
Tookie also told a guard "I dusted plenty of cops on the street, prison guard ain't that much different."
I was thinking about the gas chamber. I'm sure they can't use cyanide or chlorine gas anymore. They probably have to use the same nice comfortable vapors that they would use in the lethal injection, so it's pretty much immaterial which one he chooses.
eys! I hadn't thought about that, the Body Building connection.
"I don't vant to talk about yooah case, I oonly vant to ahsk yoou about zee body building."
Yeah, sure, I'd be about as likely to do that to hire this guy as entertainment at a children's party.
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