http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=state&id=3716687
Clemency One Remaining Option
Dec. 12 - A last-ditch federal appeal and possible clemency by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger were the only options left to spare Stanley Tookie Williams from a looming execution, after the California Supreme Court refused to reopen his case late Sunday.
Barring either of those, the Crips co-founder was scheduled to die by lethal injection at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday for murdering four people in 1979. He would become the 12th condemned inmate executed since state lawmakers reinstated the death penalty in 1977 after a brief hiatus.
The state's high court unanimously ruled, 6-0, saying the last-minute appeal lacked merit and was untimely as well. The appeal said, among other things, that Williams should have been allowed to argue at his murder trial that someone else killed one of his four alleged victims.
The justices had turned down another appeal from Williams days earlier.
Immediately after the decision, Williams' lawyers filed a virtually identical petition with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. A decision was expected Monday
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The federal court decision is the one just announced, the state court was announced late yesterday..
It's up to the Gov.
Now I have it straight!
thanks. With denial after denial of appeal, it is hard to keep track.