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Governor Declines To Stop Williams Execution
http://www.nbc4.tv/news/5512016/detail.html ^

Posted on 12/12/2005 12:42:27 PM PST by lunarbicep

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger refused Monday to spare the life of Stanley Tookie Williams, the founder of the murderous Crips gang who awaited execution after midnight in a case that stirred debate over capital punishment and the possibility of redemption on death row.

Schwarzenegger was not swayed by pleas from Hollywood stars and petitions from more than 50,000 people who said that Williams had made amends during more than two decades in prison by writing a memoir and a series of children's books about the dangers of gangs.

With a reprieve from the federal courts considered unlikely, Williams, 51, was set to die by injection at San Quentin State Prison early Tuesday for murdering four people in two 1979 holdups.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: deathpenalty; frymumia; frytookie; governator; joinarnold; schwarzenegger; stanleywilliams; tookie; tookiemustdie
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To: Jigsaw John

You sound pretty sure that there will be no riots, why do you think that?


101 posted on 12/12/2005 1:07:04 PM PST by Abathar (Proudly catching hell for posting without reading since 2004)
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To: Right Wing Assault


Know thy enemy.


102 posted on 12/12/2005 1:07:33 PM PST by in hoc signo vinces ("Houston, TX...a waiting quagmire for jihadis.")
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To: ninergold3

Thank You Governor Schwarzenegger!!


103 posted on 12/12/2005 1:08:31 PM PST by WashingtonStateRepublican
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To: lunarbicep
Image hosted by Photobucket.com let the games begin...
104 posted on 12/12/2005 1:08:52 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist ©®)
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To: lunarbicep

YEEEEEEEEEEHAW! Thank God the "Terminator" didn't turn into a "Girlie Man".

WAY TO GO, ARNOLD!


105 posted on 12/12/2005 1:10:26 PM PST by libertyman (It's HIGH time to make marijuana legal AGAIN!)
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To: lunarbicep

A miracle. Now, we wait for the feds to come in and ruin things.


106 posted on 12/12/2005 1:11:56 PM PST by AmericanChef
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To: lunarbicep

hopefully he will send us a postcard.. im sure hell has a gift shop.


107 posted on 12/12/2005 1:12:35 PM PST by Element187
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To: lunarbicep

BYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!


108 posted on 12/12/2005 1:12:52 PM PST by kaktuskid
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To: TheSpottedOwl

"Amazing how history repeats itself, isn't it? I'm glad it won't happen again in this instance. Thanks for posting this, because I forgot about Abbott."

I must admit I was an advocate on behalf of Abbott. The story of his life is a sad telling of a wayward youth, a neglected victim of circumstances beyond his control. I read his book, "In the Belly of the Beast", before he was released. I cried for his sake. I swore alot on that day which was within days of his release, in fact, in celebration of his release, when he went manic and murdered an innocent person. Abbott was too young when he was confined to solitary and he became the BEAST.


109 posted on 12/12/2005 1:13:25 PM PST by purpleland (Vigilance and Valor! Socialism is the Opiate of Academia)
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To: tflabo

Maybe we have all sinned and gone astray in some fashion but we haven't all killed 4 people for not reason than we just wanted to see them flop. Tookie deserves this and I am glad he's going to die! Now bring on the rest of death row and let's clean out the rat's nest.


110 posted on 12/12/2005 1:13:37 PM PST by calex59 (Seeing the light shouldn't make you blind...)
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To: lunarbicep

Thank you Governator Schwarzenegger.


111 posted on 12/12/2005 1:13:49 PM PST by Cinnamon
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To: Red Badger

Most if not all of the RAP stars are Gang members, they have killed to be that way, we just do not have proof


112 posted on 12/12/2005 1:13:56 PM PST by Roverman2K
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To: lunarbicep

I'm ripping out Emils to the Hollywood liberals.


113 posted on 12/12/2005 1:14:31 PM PST by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: AmericanChef

Nah, the feds have had this case numerous times before.


114 posted on 12/12/2005 1:15:32 PM PST by threeleftsmakearight
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To: Roverman2K

Actually Snoop Dog(what a grown up name don't you think)is a member of the crips, same gang as Tookie(another intelligent well thought out nick name).


115 posted on 12/12/2005 1:15:53 PM PST by calex59 (Seeing the light shouldn't make you blind...)
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To: lunarbicep

116 posted on 12/12/2005 1:17:24 PM PST by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: PBRSTREETGANG

omfg lmao...


117 posted on 12/12/2005 1:18:04 PM PST by Cinnamon
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To: lunarbicep
The writer of this article is confused.

"Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger refused Monday to spare the life of Stanley Tookie Williams" Should read...

The Gov.... Upheld the rule of law and honored the jury system.

118 posted on 12/12/2005 1:18:32 PM PST by Agent Smith (Fallujah delenda est. (I wish))
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To: HamiltonJay

"...but reality is, the total number of his books that ever sold, might reach 1000."

Betcha, America's most reknown anticapitalist-communist, who IS a wealthy capitalist, Harry Belafonte bought 1000 copies of Tookie's books. Belafonte is still searching for children in the Calif. public school system who can read them.


119 posted on 12/12/2005 1:18:37 PM PST by purpleland (Vigilance and Valor! Socialism is the Opiate of Academia)
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To: calex59
Actually Snoop Dog(what a grown up name don't you think)is a member of the crips, same gang as Tookie(another intelligent well thought out nick name).

Perhaps that's why murder was the case that they gave him.

120 posted on 12/12/2005 1:19:28 PM PST by Freedom_no_exceptions (No actual, intended, or imminent victim = no crime. No exceptions.)
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