[martin_fierro]

I do my best work early in the morning.

[tgusa]

Adios, Tookie.

[mewzilla]

The article mentions that since 1980, street gangs have killed 10,000 people in LA. That is a horrific statistic.

And I wonder where the MSM has been? Why no nightly news special on the 500th, 1000th, 2000th...deaths?

[goldstategop]

A figurative and literal human piece of trash. You know we do with trash. Stanley Williams shouldn't be treated any differently. Its time for him to be cleaned off this planet.

(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.")

[kentj]

How long does it take to cook a Christmas "Tookie"?

Oh that's right they are going to gas him - Hmmm Ok then:

How long does it take to "pass" a gassed Christmas Tookie?

[OldSmaj]

Tookie, baby, you're gonna take a journey on a gurney.

Good riddance, you murdering POS.

[Rummyfan]

Took, Took, Tookie must die! Took, Took, Tookie don't cry!

Or if you prefer...

No Christmas Cookie for Tookie!

[Long Distance Rider]

I will be very surprised if Schwarzenegger does not commute Williams' sentence. Schwarzenegger is no conservative and as a member of the Hollywood elite, I am sure he will not want to offend his peers. Or more importantly, his wife and in-laws.

[Thombo2]

The death penalty is for people like Tookie,a career criminal and a sociopath.He shot 4 people in cold blood,and to this day he refuses to admit his guilt.

[Kenton]

Still, Williams is being held up as an example of redemption because he has supposedly turned his life around. He has written children's books that speak out against gang violence.

John Wayne Gacy was a clown who made children laugh.

Tookie deserves to die. I don't care about his childrens' books. There are some things in life that just saying "I'm sorry" doesn't get you out of. Like justice for multiple murder.

[gridlock]

The store clerk, the motel owner and his family, these people do not matter. They are little people. If they had not been lucky enough to be killed by Tooke Williams, nobody would have ever heard of them. They would have lived and died in obscurity without feeling even the reflected warmth of International Celebrity.

Tookie Williams, however, is a Major Figure. A Celebrity in his own right with counter-cultural cachet to spare. He is an Intellectual in that he not only reads books, he has written one as well. He is ready to take his rightful place in The Pantheon of the Fabulous if only Arnold Schwarzenegger, a fellow Celebrity and also governor of the state of california, would see fit to spare his life.

[mslee]

The irony is that since he's trying to portray himself as a paragon of "Don't do what I did" teachings, what better way to prove his point then going through with the execution? Wouldn't that be the ultimate example of what could happen to a kid who follows down the same path?

[GregoTX]

"The murderer has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize five times. But almost anyone can nominate you. That does not prove universal acknowledgment of importance."

WINNING the nobel peace prize doesnt prove importance either. Look at Yasar Arafat and Jimmy Carter.

[SR 50]

"DEAD MAN WALKING"

The media seems to be trying to make this about Gov. Schwarzenegger. It's not. All the Governor has to do is,

DO NOTHING, let justice prevail.....

[sandbar]

Lookie Lookie Lookie, here comes Tookie, Took's gang control.

[sgtbono2002]

Tookies best selling book only sold 330 copies???

Did he run those off on the prison copy machine?

[beyond the sea]

He has written children's books that speak out against gang violence.

So, Tookie, in an effort to illustrate his goodness has written a few books for the benefit of society. I'd like to see one of these non-sellers.

Nearly ........... in the immortal words of Ed Byrnes: "Tookie, Tookie, Lend Me Your Tome."

[lady lawyer]

I spent a little time browsing on tookie.com. This is what he regrets:

"I also didn't expect the Crips to end up ruining the lives of so many young people, especially young black men who have hurt other young black men. . . . So today I apologize to you all -- the children of America and South Africa -- who must cope every day with dangerous street gangs. I no longer participate in the so-called gangster lifestyle, and I deeply regret that I ever did.

As a contribution to the struggle to end child-on-child brutality and black-on-black brutality, I have written the Tookie Speaks Out Against Gang Violence children's book series."

There isn't a word of sympathy for his victims, or other innocent victims of gang crime. His sympathy is for the gang members. He regrets their -- and his own -- self-destruction -- that is all.

I think Tookie is still the same racist he was when he murdered whites and Asians in cold blood, laughed about their suffering, and stated that he wanted to kill all whites.

Put another way, his "redemption" is really just self-pity -- extended to those he views as being like himself.

[dighton]

... the actor and writer Joseph Phillips discovered that the highest selling children's book written by Williams has sold only 330 copies.

A fascinating detail about this author, which I don't recall anyone reporting until now.

[WasDougsLamb]

When we see the NAACP, Jamie Foxx, Danny Glover and that paragon of public morality, Snoop Dogg, calling for Williams to receive clemency,.......


.....We know there is a room full of racists trying to save a murderer because it doesn't effect them personally one way or another. It speaks volumes about what these people think of the victims and their families. I, for one, think more about the lives he took and not about the POS that killed them.