Posted on 12/12/2005 6:47:47 PM PST by Sen Jack S. Fogbound
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Dec 12 9:30 PM US/Eastern
WASHINGTON - Crips gang founder Stanley Tookie Williams lost a last-ditch Supreme Court appeal that sought to stop his execution early Tuesday in California.
Justices on Monday night refused without comment to intervene and block the execution, hours after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger also declined to spare Williams' life.
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No kidding. I can't imagine why someone... knowing they're going to die...wouldn't get on their knees and ask forgiveness for everything they've done....and anything else they haven't thought of ...
About 36 minutes and counting now.
I need more popcorn........ :)
Williams' children
One of Stanley Williams' children, Stanley "Little Tookie" Williams, Jr., has also been convicted of murder. Little Tookie, a Neighborhood Crip, was found guilty of shooting a 20 year-old woman to death in an alley off Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood during a gang-related shooting. Williams, Jr. was sentenced to 16-years in prison alongside his father at San Quentin for second-degree murder. [29]
In November 2005, the Fontana, California Police Department advised print and television media that a warrant had been issued for registered sex offender Lafayette Jones. Jones, wanted for allegedly molesting an ex-girlfriend's 13-year-old daughter at gunpoint, was identified by the police department as the son of Stanley Tookie Williams. [30] [31] Williams' official Reply Petition for Executive Clemency submitted on November 21, 2005, by Peter Fleming, Jr., stated that this was a lie purported by the police department, including an attached declaration from Lafayette Jones' mother, which declared under penalty of perjury that Lafayette was not Stanley Tookie Williams' son.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Williams#Williams.27_children
Your reference to Mary Baker Eddy is a disgrace.
In less than 20 minutes now.
Shizzle, I hope he's sweating BLOOD.
2 minutes by my clock. Confetti and party horn at the ready!
So is he dead yet?
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against Tookie on his final appeal and set his execution date for December 13. Thus they disregarded 9 of the 24 Ninth Circuit Court judges' assertion that the District Attorney at Tookie's trial employed "reprehensible and unconstitutional" racist tactics, using animal-in-a-jungle metaphors to refer to Tookie and to the South Central environment in which he lived. This landmark ruling means that minorities can now legally be rejected from juries based on race. This is now the law of the land.
So he's innocent of murder because in his closing remarks because the prosecutor said Tookie was "like a Bengal tiger" and South Central was his "jungle".
I knew their "evidence" was flimsy, but that's bloody amazing. Forget the killings, the evidence, the 15 of 24 on the damned 9th circuit--a prosecutor made a perfectly-understandable comment--ONE--in a trial...and THAT is the stunning evidence he didn't do the crime????
>>>2 minutes by my clock. Confetti and party horn at the ready!<<<
This is not something to celebrate like it was New Year's Eve. I find that attitude repugnant. Justice is being served - that's not reason to celebrate like it's some sort of glorious occasion.
If it's on schedule, the sentence should be in the process of being carried out.
Jesse Jackson showed up today and openly admitted on KFI that he didn't know the names of any of Tookie's victims.
Edit: Payperview
Like I stayed up for that POS. Justice finally served.Good Morning!
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