Posted on 12/08/2005 12:12:45 PM PST by doug from upland
ENTIRE STORY: http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/13352740.htm
SACRAMENTO - Death penalty opponents rallied outside the Capitol on Thursday as lawyers for Stanley Tookie Williams took their case to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in a final effort to spare the Crips gang founder from execution.
A group of about 75 demonstrators chanted, "Love life, save Stan's life," as the governor met behind closed doors with defense lawyers and prosecutors to weigh the fate of a man condemned for four 1979 murders who claims he turned his life around on death row.
Clemency, which would commute a death sentence to life without parole, is likely the only avenue left for the gangster-turned-preacher of peace. Williams, 51, is scheduled to die Tuesday by lethal injection.
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"This is the bane of liberalism. Our laws are what count. This murderer was convicted and sentenced to death. No evidence has been produced that would counter that verdict. He should die, as he should have 26 years ago (disgusting onto itself)...what Europeans think better not enter into this AT ALL. It is AMERICAN LAW, AMERICAN COURTS and an AMERICAN DEATH PENALTY. Nothing else should enter into it."
I couldn't agree more! I simply think that Arnold has too many European habits that are difficult to overcome when pressed.
On my last trip to Europe, I hardly met anyone who didn't tell me something they felt was wrong about America. The death penalty subject came up out of the blue....most of the complaints were about the war and re-electing President Bush. I think the European aversion to the death penalty comes from guilt, but they fail to differentiate between our state-sponsored execution of a guilty man and their past state-sponsored genocide. Them's two different things.
Actually, what you have suggested leads only to one conclusion -- that California must deign to elevate cookie to his lower-level deity status, actualizing the proto into the incubae by freeing cookie from this mortal coil. It's the only fair thing to do.
He has taken 4 lives! 4!Maybe more.
That works for me.
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