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(Tookie) Killer's lawyers file last-ditch appeal
CNN ^
| December 12, 2005
Posted on 12/12/2005 4:23:17 PM PST by 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."
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: byebye; deathpenalty; finalcountdown; murderer; schwarzenegger; stanleywilliams; tookie
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To: TexasCajun
If California had death by electrocution, we'd have a Crispy Crip. Its really too bad. I would have liked to stay awake and at the hour see my lights flicker.
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posted on
12/12/2005 4:36:31 PM PST
by
C210N
(While DOGS Have MASTERS, CATS Have STAFF!)
To: West Coast Conservative
Today, Tookie,
Tomorrow, Hades' Rookie!
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posted on
12/12/2005 4:37:38 PM PST
by
Revolting cat!
("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
To: Freedom_no_exceptions; RedBloodedAmerican; EricT.
You guys are TERRIBLE!!
Actually, those rhymes are rather good. LOL!!!
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posted on
12/12/2005 4:37:54 PM PST
by
It's me
To: West Coast Conservative
One simple execution is far to good for that filthy POS. Its discusting that some children have his book in their rooms. Im not suprised that Jesse Jackson and Hollywood types defend that murderer, he is a perfect role model for the left wing.
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posted on
12/12/2005 4:37:55 PM PST
by
GregoTX
(The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
To: West Coast Conservative
He's dead Je$$e. Now go away and STFU!
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posted on
12/12/2005 4:38:22 PM PST
by
upchuck
(Article posts of just one or two sentences do not preserve the quality of FR. Lazy FReepers be gone!)
To: shooter223
Je$$e Jack$on is there for only one reason ........TV cameras are there
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Yes, the professional racist maggot always shows up, when it is expedient for his racist hypocritical agenda. I wonder why Calypso Louie is not there -- blaming the whole thing little men from flying saucers that were called down by Bush ??
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posted on
12/12/2005 4:39:01 PM PST
by
EagleUSA
To: West Coast Conservative
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posted on
12/12/2005 4:39:51 PM PST
by
steveo
(No Anchovies? You've got the wrong man, I spell my name steveo...)
To: West Coast Conservative
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." About a dozen years ago a co-worker showed up for work complaining that a traffic cop had ticketed her for going 80 in a 55 MPH zone. "But he was only trying to make his quota."
I told her as nicely as I could that if I were a cop and I were trying to make my quota, I couldn't think of anyone better to make it with than her. And I think the same thing when it comes to politicians trying to look "tough"--there's not a better guy to do it with than Tookie.
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posted on
12/12/2005 4:39:55 PM PST
by
Mr Ramsbotham
(Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
To: West Coast Conservative
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. If clemency's rejected
He must get injected.
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posted on
12/12/2005 4:40:13 PM PST
by
Thinkin' Gal
(As it was in the days of NO...)
To: West Coast Conservative
And de boyze toad Ahnold that if he commuted the sentence to
life...they would turn in all their automatic weapons...
Guess the Governator will just have to go and get 'em then....
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posted on
12/12/2005 4:41:25 PM PST
by
joesnuffy
(A camel once bit my sister-we knew just what to do- gather large rocks & squash her-Mullet Ho'mar)
To: West Coast Conservative
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posted on
12/12/2005 4:43:05 PM PST
by
sport
To: TexasCajun
And if California had the firing squad it would be a "crip shoot".
To: West Coast Conservative
Does Bush have any power over this...or do we live in the real world, not Commander-in-Cheif.
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posted on
12/12/2005 4:43:34 PM PST
by
HHKrepublican_2
(OP Spread the Truth....http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1535158/posts)
To: West Coast Conservative
Stanley Williams will meet his fate soon, but the hype about his pending execution only overshadows the real story behind the story... how the mainstream media and the liberal legal machinery through judge shopping, carefully crafted propaganda, and guilt, have tried to elevate a death row inmate convicted of multiple brutal crimes to the status of martyr and hijack the criminal justice system. Before Tookie is even cold, they'll find another posterboy for their liberal causes.
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posted on
12/12/2005 4:44:03 PM PST
by
SpaceBar
To: TexasCajun
"If California had death by electrocution, we'd have a Crispy Crip." I guess we'll just have to settle for a toxic drip tookie.
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posted on
12/12/2005 4:44:10 PM PST
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum.)
To: Joe 6-pack
Or they can give him a "euphoric" death and let him starve and dehydrate over 2 weeks or so.
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posted on
12/12/2005 4:45:17 PM PST
by
TNCMAXQ
To: shooter223
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posted on
12/12/2005 4:45:18 PM PST
by
markomalley
(Vivat Iesus!)
To: West Coast Conservative
A fine mess, Stanley!
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posted on
12/12/2005 4:45:46 PM PST
by
Revolting cat!
("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
To: steveo
No more nookie for Mr. Tookie.
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posted on
12/12/2005 4:46:37 PM PST
by
45Auto
(Big holes are (almost) always better.)
To: TexasCajun
And if California had death by guillotine we'd have to turn on a Tookie cutter!
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posted on
12/12/2005 4:48:15 PM PST
by
Revolting cat!
("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
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