LIVE THREAD - UPDATE: TOOKIE WILLIAMS EXECUTED

Fox news | Dec 12, 2005

[commish]

Gov. Shwarzeneggar expected to make announcement on Tookie Williams Execution Clemency shortly according to Fox News.

[epluribus_2]

FNC...

GONG!

[MEG33]

I am not surprised..Good for the Governor.

It pains me that Jesse Jackson is calling him a trophy of this flawed system..

Just shut up Jesse.

[Redleg Duke]

That isn't bad when you consider the alternative, sleeping with Maria Schriver!

[laney]

Maybe they can have Scott Peterson join him tonight!

[Semper Paratus]

Tookie's last chance is if Judge Ginsberg has the watch tonight.

[InsureAmerica]

""It's less than 12 hours to zero hour, and we're STILL waiting .... ? Why is Arnold doing this?""

He's waiting because the later he says no, the less likelihood some lawyer will have the time and opportunity to strategize on delaying this even further. I would wait until the last minute.

[Ciexyz]

Bump for the decision announced.

[76834]

Thats the reason Hillary is so paranoid.

Here parents gave her a radio and a toaster for bath tub toys when she was a baby.

[Not A Snowbird]

Clemency denied...

May I be the first to invite all those who blasted Arnold in the past few days to apologize?

[La Enchiladita]

I hope you're right. I hope he goes against clemency. I'm not feeling totally certain he will...

[shield]

I KNEW ARNOLD WOULD NOT GIVE THIS GUY CLEMENCY. Again, proving he's a good leader. He vetoed the gay marriage act...now this lying killer will not wiggle out of his death sentence.

[defenderSD]

I called this one (this time anyway). Looks like Arnold wants to be reelected, and clearly this man was not a proper candidate for clemency.

[SmithL]

....alot of you guys were wrong wrong wrong....

Not Me!
I get to say "I told you so!"

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Ahnold has a pair and a pretty big one - this must give immense comfort to the victims' families. Good on ahnold.

[HKMk23]

GOD would embrace TOKE if he truly had a repentful heart.

It's "Tookie", but you speak truth. You also express a VERY BIG "IF" for which no observer has any credible evidence. As to sins being "forgiveable"; that is a far cry from sins having been "forgiven". Sin is "forgiveable" because of Jesus' death in our stead on a Roman executioner's cross lo these many centuries ago, but sin is only "forgiven" by a personal apprehension of that reality on our part; each for himself alone.

"Forgiveable is as distant from "forgiven" as Hell is from Heaven.

[cgk]

Probably... glad I'm not up there anymore. Praying my brother doesn't get near it!

[xp38]

You Are Terminated....in the best Austrian accent of course.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Household current, if not weighed down, is 60 hertz.
So are humans.

An object met with its own frequency is destroyed.

[MineralMan]

"This is a very interesting discussion. It never occurred to me that an atheist would be against the death penalty... I always assumed that people against the death penalty were misguided Christan's who were interpreting the bible improperly."

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Thanks for following the discussion. Despite many folks' opinions, atheists very often have very strong ethical foundations, based on thoughtful study.

The Bible is difficult to interpret in cases like capital punishment. You can find clear arguments to make on either side in the Scriptures. Hence, we have a Roman Catholic Church, among other denominations, with the opinion that capital punishment is not a good thing. Other denominations have exactly the opposite position.

There really isn't any unified "Christian" point of view regarding capital punishment. It's a difficult question.

[nicmarlo]

Now announcing on Sean Hannity...may the victims' families find comfort that justice is being served....not that this could ever bring them back their loss.