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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: lunarbicep
Shocked...I thought Ahnuld would cave-in to the left wing whiners.
121 posted on 12/12/2005 1:19:46 PM PST by cynicom
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To: lunarbicep
From TalkLeft.com:

The California Supreme Court has denied Stanley "Tookie" Williams latest request for relief which was filed Saturday morning.

Without a grant of clemency by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, he will be put to death late tonight (12:01 am Tuesday.)

Memo to Arnold: Clemency is about mercy. It is an act of grace. You have the opportunity to stop a needless killing. Tookie's execution will not bring the victims back. It will not heal. The welfare of the people of California is best served by the message clemency would send -- one of hope to the tens of thousands of disadvantaged young people your administration has professed to care so deeply about. A denial of clemency will send a message of despair.

You hold a human life in your hand. We've seen enough killing. Please choose life for Tookie.
12:19 AM | Permalink | Death Penalty | Comments (22)

HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa, breaths, chortles, HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa!

122 posted on 12/12/2005 1:21:33 PM PST by MRMEAN (Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress;but I repeat myself. Mark Twain)
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To: tflabo
Well said. Justice has been done on earth. God alone can sit in judgment on justice hereafter.
123 posted on 12/12/2005 1:24:25 PM PST by shadowfighter
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To: Gay State Conservative

& add to that:

3) You'll have a lot more folks crying over your death than did your victims;

4) People are actually willing to riot over your death; those who loved your victims had to suffer in silence & kept to themselves.


124 posted on 12/12/2005 1:27:37 PM PST by libertyman (It's HIGH time to make marijuana legal AGAIN!)
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To: PBRSTREETGANG

lol


125 posted on 12/12/2005 1:27:44 PM PST by No Blue States
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To: lunarbicep
Note to California police, esp in L.A.:

Shoot to kill....

126 posted on 12/12/2005 1:28:13 PM PST by B.O. Plenty (Islam, liberalism and abortions are terminal..)
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To: lunarbicep
Tookie... You have been Terminated!


127 posted on 12/12/2005 1:31:37 PM PST by Thunder90
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To: dfwgator
But there is some good news for Tookie...I just save a bundle of money by switching to GEICO.

And I'm not an executioner, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

128 posted on 12/12/2005 1:33:02 PM PST by Thunder90
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To: sit-rep
adios you POS....

No. Adiablo you POS.

129 posted on 12/12/2005 1:36:55 PM PST by bikepacker67
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To: lunarbicep

Toook Toook Tookie, Bye Byeeeeee
Toook Toook Tookie Don't Cryyyyy


130 posted on 12/12/2005 1:39:50 PM PST by skyhntr (You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3. (Paul F. Crickmore - test pilot).)
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To: MRMEAN
Tell THIS to the folks @ TalkLeft:

"You have the opportunity to stop needless killing"

Would you be willing to say the same thing to the women who are seeking abortions?

"You hold a human life in your jand. We've seen enough killing".

Tell that to the abortion providers, who LITERALLY hold a human life in their hands!

"...CHOOSE LIFE [!]

131 posted on 12/12/2005 1:40:43 PM PST by libertyman (It's HIGH time to make marijuana legal AGAIN!)
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To: bikepacker67

sorry, no speakeda... ?? What did you say in english??


132 posted on 12/12/2005 1:40:55 PM PST by sit-rep (If you acquire, hit it again to verify...)
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To: sit-rep
Adios = "To God"
Adiablo = "To the 'other' guy"
133 posted on 12/12/2005 1:41:52 PM PST by bikepacker67
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To: cynicom

ah.....many here give Arnold no credit whatsoever...this is the 3rd clemency he has denied.....he may be a social centrist but has always been a law and order guy.....


134 posted on 12/12/2005 1:42:07 PM PST by NorCalRepub
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To: bikepacker67

Ah! Thankyou... but I always thought adios was simply good-bye?


135 posted on 12/12/2005 1:43:45 PM PST by sit-rep (If you acquire, hit it again to verify...)
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To: lunarbicep

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136 posted on 12/12/2005 1:45:13 PM PST by SweetCaroline (There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.)
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To: sit-rep
Ah! Thankyou... but I always thought adios was simply good-bye?

Well... it does, but literally (in spanish) it means "To God".

137 posted on 12/12/2005 1:45:37 PM PST by bikepacker67
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To: samtheman

"This is a good time to remember Abbott and Mailer."

Yes, the Abbott saga was a moral lesson. Soon Tookie will die in the name of justice. From now on, the Nobel prize legacy is cheapened before the world by favoring leftist agenda.


138 posted on 12/12/2005 1:45:46 PM PST by purpleland (Vigilance and Valor! Socialism is the Opiate of Academia)
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To: sit-rep

Ohhh... and Vaya Con Dios = Go with God.


139 posted on 12/12/2005 1:46:59 PM PST by bikepacker67
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To: bikepacker67
Cool... I'll put these in with Festivus and feel better about myself for broadening my ethnic horizons!!

BTTT!!....

140 posted on 12/12/2005 1:49:18 PM PST by sit-rep (If you acquire, hit it again to verify...)
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