(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."

[ItsForTheChildren]

Merry Crispmas!

[OnRightOnLeftCoast]

If the chair, as a last request we could ask him, "will that be Original, or Crisp?"

[jmq]

25+ years late.....

[Senormechanico]

A tookie quote gently snipped, "It is disgusting for a human to sit and watch another human die." Why then is it OK to laugh about the noises they make while dying?

[Senormechanico]

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!

And when his body is composted in a circular container, we'll have a Tookie Cookie!

[GAD]

As founder of the Crips, this beast is responsible for hundreds of murders.

As Awnold said, without confession there is no redemption.

Have a nice trip.

[Edyie]

Give the Crip the drip

[LoudRepublicangirl]

Lay Tookie on his back
And give him a drug induced heart attack...

[EGPWS]

25+ years late.....

Perhaps a stay should be reconsidered for although he killed another human in cold blood, shows no remorse for doing so, he has authored some impressive children's books.

Sarcasm....

[kcar]

We''ll see how the Tookie crumbles.

[BunnySlippers]

I wonder if the execution was of a white man who only killed blacks ... what would Jesse think?

[Lacroix]

Commander-in-Chief's specialty is pardoning Thanksgiving Turkeys.

[Hilltop]

Mr. big bad thug that laughed over his victim at a convenience store is going to feel the needle, and his outside appearance will not be marred. Can't say the same about his victims.

I'm confident that in self-righteous indignation, boredom, "poverty", and a predeliction to use any excuse to rampage, riot, and get some new, neato tennis shoes, certain members of the L.A. populace plan on throwing a going away party for this schnook.

They'll have their new sneakers, and Tookie, just like Mussolini, will still be quite dead.

[Baraonda]

HASTA LA VISTA, BABY !!!!!

[Uncle Meat]

If Jesse really wanted Tookie's life spared,he wouldn't have showed up.

[Baraonda]

"Jessee Jackson is a racist scoundrel"

And so was Toothless Tookie.

Williams also said he killed Owens "because he was white and he was killing all white people." Later that same day, Williams bragged to his brother Wayne about killing Owens. Williams said, "you should have heard the way he sounded when I shot him." Williams then made gurgling or growling noises and laughed hysterically about Owens' death.

Stanley Tookie Williams was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of Albert Owens, shown in this undated photo, at a 7-Eleven in Whittier, Calif., in 1979.

[pillut48]

But...but... "Executing Mr Williams would be like executing Louis Pasteur or Florence Nightingale"!! Straight from a sample letter at http://www.savetookie.org/sample_letters.html
for supporters to email to Arnold.

These people are insane.

[Uncle Meat]

,I wonder if the execution was of a white man who only killed blacks ... what would Jesse think?

"Hmmm,now how can I make a quick buck off this one?"

[RedBloodedAmerican]

[Baraonda]

"If clemency's rejected
"He must get injected."

Very good!

Juice tookie! Juice him now!