[Joe 6-pack]

To listen to his advocates, tookie has, during his death row sojourn, evolved into some type of superhuman, lower level deity with proto-divine qualities, sort of a Christ-Ghandi-Siddhartha-Mr. Roger and Pee-Wee Herman all rolled into one.

Since tookie has assumed his seat on a higher plane, and his life is clearly far more valuable than the rest of us who have never written a children's book or founded a blood thirsty pack of street mongrels, I think the only logical course is for one of the "save tookie" crowd to volunteer to take the needle for tookie. I'd support that. The pure altruism of the gesture would be truly impressive. It would certainly be enough to keep me from ever joining a gang.

[Joe 6-pack]

...and then tookie could run for Secretary General of the UN.

[doug from upland]

Hey, speak for yourself about not writing children's books. :)

[StAnDeliver]

"To listen to his advocates, tookie has, during his death row sojourn, evolved into some type of superhuman, lower level deity with proto-divine qualities...

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.