LIVE THREAD - UPDATE: TOOKIE WILLIAMS EXECUTED

Fox news | Dec 12, 2005

[SierraWasp]

Well I was wrong about him on this one, but his appointments and being the GangGreenGovernor still keep him far from redemption in my book!!!

[No Blue States]

Thanks, I understand your statement better now.
Hopefully you are right, it sounds right to me.
It would also be encouraging to know the blacks despise him
for selling crack to children of any race...even their own.

[conservativebabe]

Yeah, in a way it would have been nice to make him sweat it out a little longer. That would have given him little time to make his piece with his maker.

[AmeriBrit]

I heard Sandra Day O'Conners name mentioned already.

[Armedanddangerous]

I think it could. Remember what the idiots did to South Central after the King verdict.

They burned whole blocks.

[msnimje]

Will we get to see Jamie Foxx, Snoop Dog and Mike Ferrell cry on national TV?

[Fester Chugabrew]

I was wrong, too. Thought the Governor would do the political thing. It's one of those cases of making the wrong prediction in the hope it would be wrong.

[HIDEK6]

LOL

[ozzysmom]

Tha idiot Jesse Jackson is running to prison to spend time with this 4 time killer! Unbelievable! Anything for airtime!
___________
I know that Tookie deserves to die but if a mistake was made (Tookie makes a get away and leaves Jackson in his cell) and they "accidentally" made Jackson walk the dead man's walk, I would be okay with the switch.

[mnehring]

Some of the DUmbasses hope that... well, here are their own words.

Myself (caucasian), I think an insurgency among not just blacks but the urban poor in general would be a welcome conterpoint to all the death-mongering that has been going on here on AM talk radio (except for Air America, that is)

[NorCalRepub]

lol......I concur....everyone is a RINO to many here if they step out of line just one bit.... Arnold may be a bit centrist on social stuff but given this is Calif, I won't begrudge him that too much...and this is the 3rd clemency he has denied...great track record on that so far....yes, he gave the best speech at the RNC......some seem to forget

[clamper1797]

Not my theory ... I read it somewhere ...

[RichRepublican]

Yeah--I was hoping old Tookie would be kept in suspence until the very end! (oh, that's not torture, is it?)

[Salamander]

They're everywhere....;)

The Cottonwood Tree
[Marty Robbins]

I rode into Tucson three hours ago
For supplies and a short friendly game of poker
While Smitty put some new shoes on
Old Dan before he goes lame.

I sat in a game at the Miner's Saloon
Soon I had doubled my stake
The cards run like they'd been dealt by Lady Luck
They were just sealin' my fate

A young cowboy lost more than he could afford
And accused me of dealin' too smart
His draw was too slow and he fell to the floor
With three bullets close to the heart

Oh, cottonwood tree are you waiting for me
Waiting to take me away
I've done no wrong but the town cannot see
And so with my life I must pay.

A crowd started gatherin' the sheriff came in
I handed him over my gun
Was then when I found out the boy I had killed
Was the town's biggest man's only son.

I tried to explain I had shot in defense
It was the young cowboy or me
The crowd wouldn't listen so they drug me out
To the limb of this cottonwood tree.

Majestically standing out here all alone
It's spring and the valley is green
But I can't admire a place It don't belong to me
It's all like a bad dream.

But old Dan's beneath me with new shoes and all
As they place the noose round my neck
Cowboys I've never laid eyes on before
Are tyin' my hands to my back.

Oh, cottonwood tree are you waiting for me
Waiting to take me away
I've done no wrong but the town cannot see
And so with my life I must pay.

I see hate in the eyes of the town's biggest man
As he pulls a branch from the tree
To whip the backside of my old pony Dan
So he'll run out from under me.

Insane, he won't listen to my last appeal
A wild grin has covered his face
As I tried to reason just how he would feel
If he were up here in my place.

There's many a mountain trail I'll never ride
Green valleys I'll never see
A young cowboy died and a man's foolish pride
Brought me to this cottonwood tree.

My face is turned upward and I cannot breathe
The sky's growing dark overhead
The knot's pulling tight as my body swepts free
A few moments more I'll be dead.

Oh, cottonwood tree are you waiting for me
Waiting to take me away
I've done no wrong but the town cannot see
And so with my life I must pay...

[Mark was here]

They burned whole blocks.

Sounds like overtime for the ole Fire Department.

[daviscupper]

That was all he was waiting for. Now it is extremely unlikely that the United States will intervene with only eleven hours to go. History will finally receive justice.

God bless Arnold for not caving into to the Hollyweird elite.

[dc-zoo]

And what was that about Arnold caves?

[CounterCounterCulture]

Will we get to see Jamie Foxx, Snoop Dog and Mike Ferrell cry on national TV?

Of course... if Jesse Hi-Jackson takes a breather.

[goldstategop]

Yep. This God-like power was given American and state chief executives to guard against a caprice or mistake in the administration of human justice. That's why its rarely used. In Williams' case the facts were overwhelmingly and his guilt incontestable. There are a few cases in which there's doubt as to guilt of a person who was convicted but not in this situation.

(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.")

[conservativebabe]

Man, those people are unbelievably twisted.