(Tookie) Killer's lawyers file last-ditch appeal

CNN ^ | December 12, 2005

[West Coast Conservative]

Hours after California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger denied clemency Monday for convicted killer Stanley Tookie Williams, lawyers for the Crips street gang co-founder filed a last-ditch appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court for a stay of execution.

Unless the Supreme Court intervenes, Williams is scheduled to die by injection at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday (3:01 a.m. ET) at San Quentin State Prison, near San Francisco.

Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, who met with Williams earlier in the day, criticized Schwarzenegger for deciding not to spare Williams.

Jackson said Williams, who was convicted of killing four people in two 1979 robberies in Los Angeles, had earned clemency and that Schwarzenegger's decision was about "making politicians look tough, but that does not make it right."

[NavVet]

"buu bye"

[TexasCajun]

If California had death by electrocution, we'd have a Crispy Crip.

[itsinthebag]

Jackson said Williams, who was convicted of killing four people in two 1979 robberies in Los Angeles, had earned clemency and that Schwarzenegger's decision was about "making politicians look tough, but that does not make it right."

"earned clemency"? he's not serious is he? oh yeah, he is.

[randog]

Jackson said ...that Schwarzenegger's decision was about "making politicians look tough, but that does not make it right."

No, I think Schwarzenegger's decision was about making Tookie look dead.

[msnimje]

Don't let the gurney hit you on the way out.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

If celemency's denied
He must be fried

- Johnny Cochran's Ghost

[Revolting cat!]

If California had death by electrocution, we'd have a Crispy Crip.

And if it had death by hanging, we'd have a Hooked Took!

[shooter223]

Je$$e Jack$on is there for only one reason ........TV cameras are there

[Petronski]

How does someone who denies all of his crimes earn clemency?

I don't understand how they're making that leap. If he's innocent, he would deserve clemency, he wouldn't need to earn it. Their rhetoric is internally contradictory.

[bert]

Jessee Jackson is a racist scoundrel

[GSlob]

"Having been cremated, take your ashes out".

[NorCalRepub]

thanks Jesse for your uninformed bias consent....now go stop the possible riots in L.A.......get back on the bus J.J.

[Cinnamon]

shouldn't this be labeled barf alert?

[WashingtonStateRepublican]

A "Crispy Crip".... I love it!

The only good crip is a dead crip.

[Freedom_no_exceptions]

If celemency's denied He must be fried

For the lives he's wrecked,
you must inject.

[EricT.]

Make no excuse,
Just give him the juice.

[SmithL]

Tickie

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Tockie

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Tookie

[ncountylee]

Don' forget to send an Email to Jesse, BJ Hunnicutt and as many of the other pukes as you can stand.

Tookie going and their 'suffering', makes this a great day in my book.

[rbg81]

Best line I've heard all week.