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

    12/13/2005 3:07:05 PM PST · by SmithL · 107 replies · 2,712+ views
    AP ^ | 12/13/5 | KIM CURTIS
    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....