Governor Declines To Stop Williams Execution

http://www.nbc4.tv/news/5512016/detail.html ^

[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.

[exile]

Way to go Governator!

Burn baby burn.

[Kenton]

Surprisingly enough, the DUmmies over on DU are just about evenly split on this.

[zarf]

Riots up next. Bring on the club wielding LA police!

[doesnt suffer fools gladly]

Not on Fox News yet.

[Salvey]

Schwarzenegger was not swayed by pleas from ... people who said that Williams had made amends

He will make amends, of a sort, a few hours from now.

[MadeInAmerica]

Well, I guess his wife is going to withhold the nookie....because of tookie.

[netmilsmom]

It was announced live on Fox. I was watching then. You'll see it on the crawl.

[PetroniDE]

TIME TO COOKIE -- TOOKIE

[metesky]

bttt

[purpleland]

Chapter 7
Prisons as Purgatory

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LIKE TO KNOW HOW to commit a murder? This is how:

You are both alone in his cell. You've slipped out a knife (eighteen-inch blade, double edged). You're holding it beside your leg so he can't see it. The enemy is smiling and chattering away about something. He thinks you're his fool he trusts you. You see the spot. It's a target between the third button in his shirt. As you calmly talk and smile, you move your left foot to the side to step across his right-side body length. A light pivot toward him with your right shoulder and the world turns upside down you have sunk the knife to its hilt into the middle of his chest.

With this now celebrated passage from his book In the Belly of the Beast, convict John Henry Abbott became a literary sensation. He was interviewed on Good Morning America, and was proclaimed by a New York Times reviewer as "awesome, brilliant..." Norman Mailer wrote a long and laudatory article for the New York Review of Books and campaigned to have Abbott's early release.

Abbott was released in June, 1981.

In July, 1981 he allegedly murdered 22 year old Richard Adan because Adan, a bartender, would not let him use the staff restroom of the Bini-Bon restaurant. Mailer, his agent Scott Meredith, and various New York editors were quoted in Time Magazine assaying, "How tragic."

"We pretended he had always been a writer," famed author Jerzy Kosinski said. In other words, Abbott had always been a criminal.

The morality scam pulled off by Abbott is common in prison literature. In fact it is almost a literary genre, having taken in people of quite different persuasions. In the 1960's, for example, William F. Buckley helped set free Edgar Smith who attempted murder once released.

The perverted logic of the morality scam goes something like this...

http://www.albany.edu

[Puppage]

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

That's great. Maybe now you can get into Heaven?....tomorrow?

[goldstategop]

Thank you Governor, for ensuring that justice will be done. This will hold you in good stead with God. Now I await the Blessed Event tonight!

(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.")

[alarm rider]

"they'll be rioting shortly....."

Do you think the riots will happen first, or will the Hollywood types start crying a river first?

[HamiltonJay]

Made ammends.. WTF... how many people died this year alone in gang related violence?.... Let alone the life of his direct victims... Made ammends my arse.

May God have mercy on his soul, for none will be found here.

[Sacajaweau]

Kill four people and you deserve a death sentence. Write nine books should keep you from this sentence?? Absurd!! Yeh, yeh....It was for the children!!

[Michael.SF.]

Next Stop?

[dfwgator]

But there is some good news for Tookie...I just save a bundle of money by switching to GEICO.

[netmilsmom]

>>Surprisingly enough, the DUmmies over on DU are just about evenly split on this<<

Snowmen must be skiing in hell.

[raccoonradio]

...and, by one of Tookie's defenders... (6 pm PT tonight...)

[TNCMAXQ]

Now if only they would also execute the thousands of others on death row, especially those savages who went on their raping/robbing/killing rampage in Wichita 5 years ago this week. That case will always stand out in my mind as one of the most vile ever.