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.
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!
& 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.
lol
Shoot to kill....
And I'm not an executioner, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
No. Adiablo you POS.
Toook Toook Tookie, Bye Byeeeeee
Toook Toook Tookie Don't Cryyyyy
"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 [!]
sorry, no speakeda... ?? What did you say in english??
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.....
Ah! Thankyou... but I always thought adios was simply good-bye?
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Well... it does, but literally (in spanish) it means "To God".
"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.
Ohhh... and Vaya Con Dios = Go with God.
BTTT!!....
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