Executed gang leader's supporters say he deserves a statesman's funeral

AP ^ | 12/13/5 | KIM CURTIS

[SmithL]

San Francisco -- The argument over whether convicted killer Stanley Tookie Williams was a man of peace or a death-row con artist raged on after his execution Tuesday, with supporters announcing they would give him a funeral "befitting a statesman."

The 51-year-old founder of the bloody Crips gang died by injection at San Quentin Prison just after midnight for the murders of four people in two 1979 holdups, professing his innocence to the very end, even when an admission of guilt might have helped save his life.

His last, best hope was an act of mercy by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. But the governor was unconvinced by Williams' supporters — several Hollywood stars among them — who argued that he had redeemed himself behind bars with memoirs, children's books and lectures against the dangers of gang life.

After the execution, Williams' supporters vowed to continue his work to discourage youngsters from following in his footsteps, and promised another book from writings he left behind.

"If they think they succeeded by killing him in getting people to forget about him, they have done just the opposite," said Barbara Becnel, his collaborator and most vocal supporter.

Williams declined to make a final statement as he went to his death.

He seemed frustrated by the time it took officials to insert the intravenous lines into the former bodybuilder's muscular arms. At one point, Williams uttered something to the nurse and offered to help, said Steve Ornoski, the warden. About 15 minutes after the process began, he appeared to ask: "You doing that right?"

Williams refused a sedative, said Becnel, one of the witnesses. She said he was "brave and strong and he was everything we believed him to be."

Other witnesses included Rudy Langlais, executive producer of "Redemption: The Stanley Tookie Williams Story,"

[West Coast Conservative]

What planet do these morons come from?

[backhoe]

Here is the preliminary, "edited on the fly" report and pictures from LGF's "zombie." More is coming; the page is being updated in real time:

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zombie  12/13/2005 02:54PM PST

 

Here's about 5% of the material I've got lined up for the Tookie carnival: Since you're all braying for something, I will throw this slab of raw meat for you to chew on while I continue to process the rest of the photos!

zombietime Tookie report: early draft.

#328

zombie  12/13/2005 03:17PM PST

 

Keep in mind, everyone, that this is just the tip of the iceberg: mind-blowing videos are in the offing! Your heads will explode!

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A sample of zombies work & comments:

Why look -- an authentically sad man!


Oh, wait: he's just posing for a cameraman. Never mind.

[Berlin_Freeper]

supporters announcing they would give him a funeral "befitting a statesman."


TRANSLATION:

Send me your money so I can stick it into my pockets.

[cynwoody]

If he deserves a statesman's funeral, how about Mussolini's?

Mussolini & Mistress (source).

[WasDougsLamb]

Executed gang leader's supporters say he deserves a statesman's funeral



----He doesn't deserve anything. He should be buried and forgotten. Yes, forgotten just like his victims were by his supporters. His supporters are as ignorant as he was and their wants' are not even worth mentioning.

[taxed2death]

He deserves what he got. To go out with a whimper and not a shred of dignity. He got "turned off" like a light switch by "Da Man" and probably peed his pants during the snuffing.

I'm ok with that.

[TCats]

Jackson usually manages to insert himself into every picture but this time he failed. I wonder why? Tookie surely would have wanted the publicity from the trained MSM who hang on every utterance from this corrupt, truly racist moron.

[Teacher317]

refrain from killing and the likelihood of being executed in the US is about 1 in 2,000,000

150 innocent people will be executed in America in our lifetime?

(1 in 2,000,000 multiplied by 300,000,000 = 150)

Only 1000 have been executed in the past 30 years.

[mucrospirifer]

If Tookie is given a statesmans funeral, I think it would be tres gauche not to invite as well the dozens of young black men, beneficiaries of Tookie's inventive genius, lying in cold storage tonight in morgues all over the country.

Just think, it would be the social event of the season!

[relictele]

If he deserves a statesman's funeral, how about Mussolini's?

Or really lavish like Ceaucescu's.

[theDentist]

She said he was "brave and strong and he was everything we believed him to be."

...Except innocent. He was everything but innocent.

[New Perspective]

They can go tell someone who gives a c*&t.

[yer gonna put yer eye out]

"What's a tookie?

Is someone going to make me some cookies?"

A "Tookie" be a crip who be nowen he be gonna get bussed sonday so instea of carryen one hancuff key, he be carryrn tookie...see?

[VoiceOfBruck]

They should scatter his remains over LA. Or they could cremate him!

[Lester Moore]

She said he was "brave and strong and he was everything we believed him to be."

Actually he was brazen and bellicose and he was an impenitant murderer.

He's now burning in hell. Forever.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Williams' supporters can give him any funeral they can afford.

Yup.

[quark]

"Weekend at Tookie's"

[gotribe]

How about just drenching his damned casket in gasoline and asking his supporters if they'd like to hop aboard before striking the match.

[Dont_Tread_On_Me_888]

Executed gang leader's supporters say he deserves a statesman's funeral

I hear Sgt. York is free that day, and has been looking for a gig since the honorable President Ronald Reagan's funeral.

How can anyone vote Democratic? Why would anybody associate themsleves with these deranged lunatics?

[Clock King]

Let Tookie's most successful protege pay for it..