Tookie asks for emergency stay

See BS News dot com ^ | 12-11-05

[Churchillspirit]

Thanks for the reminder of why this scumbag Williams is facing execution.

RIP, Albert.

[mtbopfuyn]

But if he is not granted clemency, they will riot and kill people.

Good. Since they'll all be in a group, it'll make it quicker for LE to round them up.

[CAWats]

The effort is pretty much limited to writing books and saying things the media reports

Designing bug-free software is definitely out.

[ErnBatavia]

[mtbopfuyn]

Castro has been nominated as well.

[Galveston Grl]

I lived in Corpus for a while when I was a kid. Having lived in just about everywhere, I like all of Texas the best.

[CAWats]

I like all of Texas the best.

Me too. Don't ask me why I live in CA cause I do not know :)

[LK44-40]

Fatasy inspired by your graphic...

- In a stunning development, the CA legislature, meeting in emergency session, dumps lethal injection and adopts the electric chair, both for future offenders and also those already queued for dispatch.

- All courts applaud and agree that it is time to get to work on the backlog. (This is a ~fantasy~, after all.)

- I win the lottery and am invited as a public witness to Tookie's roasting.

As they strap him into the chair, I am jumping up and down like a manic lunatic, pointing through the glass at Tookie and the chair and shrieking "In before the zot! In before the zot!"

[FreeAtlanta]

Terminate him! Terminate him now!

[FreeAtlanta]

[ErnBatavia]

..or you could start with "IB4TZ", and when you get the 'say what?', then move on with your rant to really confoose the other witnii.

[i_dont_chat]

Let's see. He was found guilty of killing 4 people, and was given the death sentence 24 YEARS AGO.

He has NOW finally admitted that he is a murderer -- this is new. Before now, he has maintained that he is innocent (along with most other death-row inmates).

In today's news, he admits in the request to stay his execution, that he killed ONLY 3 of the 4 people he was found GUILTY of killing. That someone else killed one of the four.

Okay, his death penalty should be administered for the THREE.

[doug from upland]

Attorney Verna Wefald filed a petition Saturday challenging the validity of the four convictions and death sentences given in 1981 to Williams,
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He has never admitted the murders.

[i_dont_chat]

I thought the article said that in his appeal, he claims someone else killed one of the victims.

Doesn't it follow that he is admitting killing 3 of them?

[Squantos]

Stick him.....

[doug from upland]

We are reading it differently, but I can understand the confusion.

[katiebelle]

"You" took this too personally! I meant in general. Dismiss if you want to as is your right. "I" still think that people can do nice things despite doing really terrible things as well.

[freedumb2003]

Join us over on the John and Ken Live Tookie Must Die thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1538718/posts

[katiebelle]

I don't think we will ever know this side of heaven. There are probably things we have all done that we have no idea helped someone else out. Maybe the books inspired a parent to get up and get out. You never know.

[katiebelle]

What part of we are all sinners do you not get? Seems to me it is pretty easy to throw stones at these people because they make terrible choices day after day. To totally dismiss them as having not one redeeming quality is shallow. Aren't you glad God didn't have the same measuring stick when he looked at you and I? Your poo stinks too! Are you saying that people who have made horrible choices can't ever turn their life around or have any redeeming qualities because of choices made early in life? While I haven't been in prison myself it seems pretty logical that there are lots of ways one can better themselves in prison. They can work out, get an education, attend Bible studies probably offered daily if not weekly. That pretty much covers body mind and spirit. I don't believe his books were chapter books nor written for teens and up. They are children's books probably written in slang/Ebonics whatever that reaches right where those children are. I would even go so far to say that his book has a better chance of getting one child's attention that my little white self going in there and telling them to turn their lives around. Let's just for one minute say that his only motivation for his good deeds are to save himself like you said...does the motivation matter if it changes a life in the end? Not his, but someone else's? I believe that God can use what was intended for selfish gain to be used for good. What part of that escapes you?