Posted on 12/13/2005 12:47:16 AM PST by Slings and Arrows
Stanley Tookie Williams executed Crips gang co-founder put to death for 4 murders
Tuesday, December 13, 2005; Posted: 3:38 a.m. EST (08:38 GMT)
SAN QUENTIN, California (CNN) -- Convicted killer and Crips gang co-founder Stanley Tookie Williams was executed early Tuesday at the California state prison at San Quentin.
The execution went ahead as scheduled after the U.S. Supreme Court late Monday rejected a last-ditch appeal.
The high court's ruling followed California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's decision to deny clemency for Williams, 51, who received a lethal injection at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday (3:01 a.m. ET).
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"But we should credit him little bit for the books he wrote while in prison. or does that not count as reform?"
He didn't write the books, the reporterette he was having visits with wrote them.
And if he was innocent, he could not be 'reformed'.
Either he is innocent, or he is not.
He cannot be both.
And he never apologized, nor did he ever ask forgiveness.
He repeatedly swore there were no victims.
In other words, he was pathological until the moment he died.
"..a real hanging with a modern rope and an auxiliary wire noose to make sure."
I'm not sure what you mean. On TV cowboy shows, hanging was somebody dropping straight down into a trap door and having their neck broken. Pretty much instantly.
In Zane Gray books, they sit the bad guy on a horse, put the noose around his neck, through the other end of the rope over a very strong tree limb, and have somebody, probably on a horse I guess, back away from the person to be executed, very quickly.
The person to be executed ends up going into going up in the air and their horse walks or runs away. In the books, it seemed like a person spent maybe a minute or two writhing around, providing space to breathe, then died, I'm not sure what of, exactly, strangling possibly, or a broken neck.
keinetodesstraffe
GOT THE ZOT
Wonder who he was.
He seemed familiar.
http://www.freerepublic.com/~caringiscreepy/
Another one..
yes he did...his speech patterns were very similar to another troll from a couple months ago...
Yeah.
Wonder when he'll be back.
Get a life and stop stalking me like the dimented freak that you are.
probably tomorrow
Hmm.
Likely.
"Get a life and stop stalking me like the dimented freak that you are. "
Huh?
Bet you loved this thread!
Can you feel the "softness"?
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