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.

[PaulaB]

[shield]

OK Tookie order your supper and pick the needle or gas. Otherwise, the prison system will make your last decision for you.

Arnold I had faith in you from day one...I knew you'd never give this scumbag clemency. Thank You.

[Brilliant]

No girlie man jokes today.

[purpleland]

"Hasta la vista Butth*le."

This is a time for reflection and prayer, not mean spiritedness. I don't detest Tookie as much as I detest the gollywood leftists like Ed Asner and Harry Belafonte.
Tookie's criminal character is better understood than antiAmerican subversive characters of Asner and Belafonte.

[Michael.SF.]

Does California still use gas or have they switched to injection?

They have switched to injection, but they roll the prisoner on a gurney into the old gas chamber for the final injection.

[armydawg1]

Well done Arnold! Justice is served.

[Red Badger]

California is so deep in the red.

CA is a BLUE state.........

[2dogjoe]

11 hours and 3 minutes to go!

[MaDeuce]

"Hey! Arnold does have gonads..."

Yeah ... but they're little ones as a result of all the steroids.

[libstripper]

The worst thing about this is that he'll die gently, by lethal injection, a humane death that should be reserved for infirm old dogs and cats. A vile, evil to the core, unrepentant, murdering subhuman POS like this should have the full experience of a lethal gas execution.

[Paleo Conservative]

They have switched to injection, but they roll the prisoner on a gurney into the old gas chamber for the final injection.

Sounds nostalgic.

[jpl]

This decision will be a real shot in the arm for Arnold's poll numbers.

ROFL!

[markman46]

they need to bring back that chair and the gas, not this injection crap, that's too easy.

[shield]

They have both...Tookie needs to pick which way he'll die. He hasn't yet...so the prison system will pick it for him which would be death by injection.

[freeangel]

Hip, Hip, Hooray!

[dfwgator]

It was a no-brainer. The people who supported clemency were never going to vote for Arnold anyway. And Arnold would pretty much have lost the rest of his base had he granted clemency.

[Paleo Conservative]

When's Snoop's time up?

[KevinDavis]

I wonder what the Arnold bashers are going to say???

[Sub-Driver]

and get a new TV.........

[nuke rocketeer]

Nah, better to have something even more horrific, like an initially botched elctrocution, or a hanging where he chokesto death instead of having his neck broken.