Problems Alleged in Execution of Crips Co-Founder

streetgangs.com via LA Times ^ | September 6, 2006 | Henry Weinstein

[Brilliant]

"Stanley Tookie Williams may have felt horrible pain...."



Unfortunately, I doubt it.

[Christian4Bush]

He died, yes? So what's the problem?

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Reminds me of the scene in the Green Mile, after Percy sabotaged Delacroix's execution, causing the condemned to suffer horrible agony, and Tom Hanks' character covered for Percy...sort of...

WARDEN: Now...what in the hell happened?

EDGECOMBE: An execution. A successful one.

WARDEN: How in the name of (Deity deleted) can you call 'that' a "success"?

EDGECOMBE: Edward Delacroix is dead...(turning to PERCY)...isn't he?

[Christian4Bush]

Punishment is supposed to be swift and just. In my opinion, the pain Tookie Williams put the public through by keeping himself alive through appeals, outweighs any minor discomfort this puke may have felt as he was finally being put out of OUR misery.

Not to mention the misery of having to listen to Jamie Foxx's lame arse argument that Tookie's execution should be called off because the DOE was on his (Foxx's) birthday.

[Captain Rhino]

Yeah, I'm a real softie.

[RichInOC]

I read the book. I bet given the opportunity, Del would have traded executions with Tookie in a heartbeat.

[No Blue States]

Thanks for the good news.

[Thumper1960]

May have felt horrible pain?

No concrete proof, either. Just another scumbag, bleeding heart, self loathing, anti-American, dipsh!t lawyer making spurious and flatulent claims based upon hot air and mental masturbation.

Since when, Mr. "Lawyer", is punishment for crimes committed to be painfree and pleasing to the convicted?

Take a hike, defiler of justice.

[Christian4Bush]

I read the book. I bet given the opportunity, Del would have traded executions with Tookie in a heartbeat.

Hell, yeah (no pun intended)

[rock58seg]

I was afraid they were going to say he wasn't dead.

Glad to find out, there is no problem after all.

[ncountylee]

Tookie going out hard is a good thing. IMHO

[Garvin]

"Lawyers for another condemned inmate say Stanley Tookie Williams may have felt horrible pain."

They make it sound like it's a BAD thing.

[FreedomCalls]

Smaller still.

[albee]

"I've read Tookie had several meetings with Muslims over the years. Typical, huh? Did he ever "fully" convert?"

Tookie was such a scumbag that even the Muslims probably wanted nothing to do with him.

[ncountylee]

Or, there is the preferred method of certain African regimes--a tire full of burning gasoline around the neck is popular.

[MarkL]

OK, as far as I can see, that means that there are simply only 2 methods of execution that should be used:

The first being that the convict should be put to death in the same way that he murdered his victims. If they were bludgeoned to death, he should be bludgeoned to death. If the victims were shot, then he should be shot, etc... If the form of death the murder chose was good enough for his victims, it should be good enough for him!

The second way should be by sawing the convicted murder's head off, the way the jihadis do it... After all, these leftist lawyers seem to love everything about them, trying to make sure they've got all the rights of an American citizen in a civil court, and they don't seem to feel that there's anything wrong with what "they" do, so maybe we should start using their techniques.

Mark

[MarkL]

Lawyers for another condemned inmate say Stanley Tookie Williams may have felt horrible pain.

The problem is that we just can't be sure... I suggest a scientific test... Let's get one of those lawyers, strap him to the gurney in the death chamber, use a single IV line (since Tookie didn't get his backup line), and inject the "cocktail."

"OK, Mr. Lawyer, what are you feeling? Mr. Lawyer? Mr. Lawyer? Hmmm... For some reason, he's not being helpful here. Bring me the next lawyer..."

Mark

[MarkL]

Well,it is all idle speculation until Tookie testifies to what he either did, or did not, feel.

No kidding... I haven't heard him complain so far, so he must be pretty satisfied with how things went.

Mark

[reagan_fanatic]

[MarkL]

I remember reading that Tookie looked annoyed at the time it took them to find a vein and administer the injections. What was he thinking, "That's sixty seconds of my life I'll never get back."? My first reaction was that his travail would make a most excellent Snickers ad, "Not going any place soon?"

That reminds me of a scene from the movie "Sin City," where Micky Rourke's character Marv is strapped in to the electric chair, and a priest is reading a psalm, and Marv says, "Would you hurry it up? I haven't got all night. "

Mark

[Chode]

OD the FPOS on PURE-Junk, he'll think he's free again. till he gets where he's going... 8^)