Crips Founder Williams Denied Clemency

Breitbart.com ^ | 12/12/05 | DAVID KRAVETS

[Riptides]

I would love to read in tomorrow's paper that they had to drag Stanley screaming and crying like a little sissy before they strapped his useless, evil, murdering body onto that cold gurney and shoved that needle into his arm.
It took a lot of guts for Arnold not to give in. I'm sure he and Maria are sleeping on different beds tonight.

[Unicorn]

Hang him would be better.

[Unicorn]

Hang him four times.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

Your points are excellent and underscore why I am against abortion as well as being against the death penalty. Guess I take that "thou shalt not kill" Commandment seriously and apply it consistently. Life in prison would have been punishment enough for Tookie, and perhaps even to the benefit of society if his recent lip-service against gangs was sincere.

[RunningWolf]

that's how it's designed to look, to make it more palatable to the observers and those who're doing it.

Yep thats what its all about

Its more govt lies

Lethal injection just makes it all nice to see for the viewing public.

To the lethal processes. There are no nice ways it happens.

They used to suggest the gas chamber was painless too, and suggested the inmates was not aware of his struggles, contortions etc.

Even electrocuting was suggested to be painless. But the current does not flow thru the brain like they predicted, the person essentially cooks like a hot-dog on the electrodes.

On lethal injection, the pentothal might hypnotize the person for a second, but when the other chemicals hit him he is conscious again. Life is not let go easily unless it is part of a natural death.

When the woman in Texas was executed by lethal injected years ago her eyes flew back open during the procedure.


My comments are not to humanizing the perp or marginalizing the victim but are only about how the lethal processes are advertised to the public.

Wolf

[FunkyZero]

Ok, I'll take the flames for saying this.. here goes:
It is quite obvious what lead to this man's demise and almost certain death tonight. My personal opinion is the same as Arnold's. However personal this opinion may be, I felt a need to say something else.
God will judge, not me. Regardless of what this person did, it is not my place on earth to revel or applaud his pending extermination. God is not only watching "Tookie" and Arnold, he is also watching me. The things that this man did to other humans is something that I have trouble digesting, but I fear God enough to never express joy or make light of another humans misfortune, whether it be by his own hand or not.
Remember what Dirty Harry once said: "Never Gloat"

[pankot]

Tookie go bye-bye--unless some halfwit judge steps in.

[OldPossum]

Re your post 22 showing an electric chair, I think back to a cartoon I saw in the early 1950's. It showed a drawing of an electric chair and above it was a small banner labeled "You Can Be Sure If It's Westinghouse."

(You had to be living in that era to know that that was the Westinghouse Corporation's marketing slogan.)

Gallows humor.

[ozzymandus]

Don't tell me what to think. If you don't like murderers to be punished, go stand in front of the prison with your candle-holding pals.

[11Bush]

My main problem with the death penalty is basically we're letting the government decide who lives and who dies.

No, a jury of free people, chosen from the general population decides who lives and who dies. The laws are decided upon by the population. The judges are chosen by the population.

Where is the government making any of the decisions?

[Irene Adler]

"On lethal injection, the pentothal might hypnotize the person for a second, but when the other chemicals hit him he is conscious again. Life is not let go easily unless it is part of a natural death."

"When the woman in Texas was executed by lethal injected years ago her eyes flew back open during the procedure."

I don't think you are right about this. Sodium pentathol is used to anesthetize people for surgery. They don't feel the surgery. Eyes flying open don't signal much of anything except a muscle spasm. Lots of people die with their eyes open. My dad used to help the local undertaker many, many years ago when he was young and really needed some extra money. He has told me a few things. Usually undertakers glue eyes shut because they have a tendency to come open even after death.

I am certainly no expert in these matters, but it seems to me that the same drug that anesthetizes during surgery should be entirely sufficient to block pain during lethal injection executions.

[dagoofyfoot]

LOL!

[Hildy]

Religious leaders who call for calm....are actually saying.."LET'S GET READY TO RUMBLE." The average black guy could give a damn about Williams....geez.

[pyx]

Snoop's a Crip.

Somehow, the name Calvin Brodus doesn't sound as cool as Snoop Dogg.

[King Prout]

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[Zeon Cowboy]

Another 75 minutes or so.

Spend them wisely, Mr, Williams.