Justices decline to block Williams execution

AP ^ | 12/11/5 | DAVID KRAVETS

[SmithL]

San Francisco -- Crips co-founder Stanley Tookie Williams lost another bid before the California Supreme Court when the justices unanimously ruled late Sunday not to reopen his case and block his Tuesday execution by lethal injection.

The high court ruled 6-0, and said the last-minute appeal lacked merit and was untimely as well, meaning Williams will be executed unless Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger grants clemency or an anticipated last-ditch federal appeal is successful. California's justice days ago also turned down a similar appeal from Williams, who is scheduled to be the 12th condemned inmate executed since state lawmakers reinstated the death penalty in 1977 after a brief hiatus.

State prosecutors implored the justices early Sunday to dismiss Williams' latest petition to block his Tuesday execution for murdering four people in 1979.

The stay request filed on Williams' behalf "is without merit and is manifestly designed for delay," Deputy Attorney General Lisa Brault wrote the justices.

Brault's brief came hours after a lawyer for Williams, 51, urged the state Supreme Court to call off the Crips co-founder's upcoming death contending Williams should have been allowed to argue at his 1981 Los Angeles County trial that someone else killed one of his four alleged victims.

[SmithL]

Tookie Delenda Est!

[bybybill]

Your turn, Arnie

[cavtrooper21]

Tookie go bye-bye...
Bye bye Tookie.
I'm glad I never met you.
(IF I HAD YOU WOULD BE GONE ALREADY!!)

[Baraonda]

Hasta la vista baby.

[Rembrandt]

Too bad they can't shoot him in the back like he did to his first victim, then laugh at the sounds he makes as his life gurgles away. Better yet, video it and send ccs off to these bleeding hearts so they can also enjoy it!

[jaguaretype]

"and was untimely as well"

That is polite Supreme Court-speak for "we don't have time for your BS innocence claims tookie....so die already and get off of our TV screens!"

[FlingWingFlyer]

Git-R-Done!!!!

[metmom]

I'm becoming a bigger fan of an-eye-for-an-eye...

[msnimje]

This is not a hard decision for the courts or the governor. Tookie has been tried and convicted of his crimes. He threatened to kill the jurors, planned an escape from prison that involved killing guards and one of his "friends" who testified against him. He shows no remorse and accepts no responsibility for his actions.

There is nothing that happened in the commission of the crimes or since that time to show Tookie is worthy of clemency.

[mass55th]

Sung to the tune of Toot, Toot, Tootsie Goodbye:

Took, Took, Tookie goodbye,
Took, Took, Tookie don't cry.
The lethal shot that takes you away from here,
No words can tell how loud we'll cheer.
Miss us, Tookie, and then
Miss us over again.
Fat chance of bail,
The injection we'll hail,
if we don't get a letter
Then we know you're dead in jail.
Took, Took, Tookie don't cry,
Took, Took, Tookie goodbye!

[lewislynn]

Your turn, Arnie

Why? He's not required to do anything. All he has to do is nothing.

[connectthedots]

Brault's brief came hours after a lawyer for Williams, 51, urged the state Supreme Court to call off the Crips co-founder's upcoming death contending Williams should have been allowed to argue at his 1981 Los Angeles County trial that someone else killed one of his four alleged victims.

So he admits to murdering three people. The penalty is the same.

[GVnana]

I think the governor is letting it go to the last minute based on tradition, and it gives less time for Los Angeles to burn.

[Buddy B]

"and it gives less time for Los Angeles to burn."

LA burning is very likely early Wednesday morning. .

[WasDougsLamb]

---And LA police/SWAT teams should be ready and prepared to shoot to kill every single one of them that uses this as an excuse to steal,trash,burn etc. because thats all it is to them is an excuse. Tookie dieing to them = free stuff and another excuse to act like wild animals.

[goldstategop]

The Court should have sanctioned his attorneys costs for filing a frivolous motion. Take note that it was unanimous. Stanley Williams apparently didn't grow up all these years in prison. He's still not ready to die like a man. We'll see just how he looks upon death once its his turn. One day to go to the Blessed Event!

(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.")

[goldstategop]

I thought he was innocent? Gee after all these years he finally admits to committing at least three murders! Not that its much of a concession but it shows how his Fan Club has been played for fools. I just love how that sociopath suckered them with his jive about having changed. I didn't believe it for a minute.

(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.")

[Tzimisce]

Bye Tookie. It's too bad your lefty friends are such freaks.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Bama?

[goldstategop]

They'll forget he ever existed once he's executed. And they'll find another murderer to moon over.

(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.")