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FREEP ARNOLD: Don't Be A Capital Punishment Girly-Man (TOOKIE MUST DIE) It's time to contact California Governor Arnold Schwartzenegger and urge him to permit justice to run served--victim's rights demand Tookie's Termination. Posts to FR threads probably won't be seen by him or his staff--it's preaching to the choir. Posts to the Official Governor of California Governor web site WILL be seen by his staff. Please go there and THEN also bump and ping this thread. Let's do it nicely, but firmly. Thanks. Tookie's victims and our society is counting on us. Below is a sample message. -------------------------------------------------- SUBJECT: Type...

Death Row Dilemma Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger faces difficult political and humanitarian choices in the battle over clemency for convicted killer Tookie Williams. WEB EXCLUSIVE By Karen Breslau Newsweek Updated: 1:02 p.m. ET Dec. 8, 2005 Dec. 8, 2005 - As an action hero, Arnold Schwarzenegger dispatched villains with a hail of hot lead and a satisfied clench of his muscled jaw. As governor—and a politically humbled one at that—Schwarzenegger will find no such closure in the agonizing decision he faces in the case of death-row inmate Stanley (Tookie) Williams.

Have you contacted Gov. Arnold's office about the clemency for Tookie Williams? Last week, I mailed a letter to his Sacramento office, urging him to deny clemency... The media is trying to create the impression that there is a big public support for granting clemency... Gov. Arnold should hear from citizens who want the execution to take place...

BEIJING, December 5, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) ? Chinese officials have admitted to selling the organs of executed prisoners to foreign transplant recipients. Deputy Health Minister Huang Jiefu admitted that the practice is common, while promising to change the policy. ?We want to push for regulations on organ transplants to standardise the management of the supply of organs from executed prisoners and tidy up the medical market,? Huang said, as reported by the UK?s Times on Line.A liver sells to a foreign recipient for approximately $41,000 USD, the Times stated. Although a religious tradition in China maintains that the body must be...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Saddam Hussein told the judge at his trial Monday that "I am not afraid of execution" during an unruly court session in which the first witness took the stand and testified that the former president's agents carried out random arrests, torture and killings. The outburst was one of several by Saddam or his co-defendants at the trial that also saw a brief walkout by his defense lawyers. At one point, Saddam appeared to threaten the judge, saying: "When the revolution of the heroic Iraq arrives, you will be held accountable." Chief Judge Rizgar Mohammed Amin replied: "This...

Dec. 2. — With the final words “God bless everybody in here”, Kenneth Boyd became the 1,000th prisoner to be put to death in the USA since the death penalty was reinstated a quarter of a century ago. His death came after both Governor Mr Mike Easley and the US Supreme Court declined to intervene and stop the execution. “Having carefully reviewed the facts and circumstances of these crimes and convictions, I find no compelling reason to grant clemency and overturn the unanimous jury verdicts affirmed by the state and federal courts,’’ Mr Easley said in a statement issued a...

RALEIGH, N.C. - A man who killed his wife and father-in-law awaited lethal injection early Friday in the nation's 1,000th execution since capital punishment resumed in 1977. Kenneth Lee Boyd, set to die at 2 a.m., spent the day visiting family and friends. Late Thursday, Gov. Mike Easley denied Boyd's clemency request. Earlier in the day, the U.S. Supreme Court and the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected final appeals by Boyd's lawyers. "We went in and told him the governor turned him down and he handled it well," said Boyd's lawyer, Thomas Maher, who was among a succession...

BREAKING NEWS This story is from our news.com.au network Source: Reuters State awaits 1000th execution By Andy Sullivan in Raleigh, North Carolina 02dec05 DEATH penalty opponents marched by candlelight to a North Carolina prison as the state prepared to execute the 1000th prisoner in the US since capital punishment was reinstated nearly 30 years ago. Less than four hours before Kenneth Lee Boyd, 57, was scheduled to die by lethal injection for shooting his wife and father-in-law in 1988 in front of two of his children, state Governor Mike Easley said he was denying clemency. The US Supreme Court had...

The US has carried out the 1,000th execution since capital punishment was reintroduced in 1976. Kenneth Boyd, a convicted killer, was put to death by lethal injection in North Carolina for the murder of his estranged wife and her father in 1988. He was given three drugs - one to put him to sleep, another to paralyse him, and a third to stop his heart. Boyd, 57, has said the death penalty is "nothing but revenge". Relatives of his victims say he deserves to die. Boyd was pronounced dead at 0215 (0715 GMT), state Department of Correction spokeswoman Pam Walker...

These are the grizzly crime scene and autopsy photos released by the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office in the case of convivted quadruple murderer and coward Tookie Williams. Hey, Mike Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Snoop Dogg, Bianca Jagger, Jesse Jackson, Margaret Cho, Mike Farrell, Jason Alexander, Laurence Fishburne, Danny Glover, Anjelica Huston, Bonnie Raitt, and Noah Wyle -- Explain Tookie's redemption now?

CONVICTED drug trafficker Nguyen Tuong Van showed courage going to his death, his lawyer said today. The 25-year-old was executed in Singapore at 6am local time (9am AEDT), while his mother Kim grieved with friends and relatives at a nearby church at the scheduled time of the hanging. "I know that he died the courageous death that he planned for himself and died as an optimistic young man, making us all extremely proud of him," lawyer Lex Lasry QC told ABC radio. Mr Lasry said he thought the case would have a long-lasting impact. "This case and its impact is...

SINGAPORE - Singapore executed a 25-year-old Australian on Friday for drug trafficking, despite numerous appeals from the Australian government and hours after the condemned man had a "beautiful last visit" with his family. Nguyen Tuong Van was hanged before dawn as a dozen friends and supporters, dressed in black, kept an overnight vigil outside the maximum-security prison. His twin brother, Nguyen Khoa, was dressed in white. Vigils were also held in cities around Australia, with bells and gongs sounding 25 times at the hour of his execution. "The sentence was carried out this morning at Changi Prison," the Home Affairs...

IT was his last wish: to walk unshackled and confidently, rosary beads hidden in his grip, to the gallows. After a day of tears and goodbyes, and a night of prayer, Australian drug-trafficker Nguyen Tuong Van had accepted his fate and was ready to be hanged at 6am (9am AEST) today in Singapore's Changi prison. The former Melbourne salesman, 25, was said yesterday to be frightened by the method of his death but comforted by his newfound Christian faith in going to "somewhere good". It was the final farewell to mother Kim and twin brother, Khoa, that was to dominate...

As the 1993 execution of a San Antonio man comes under new scrutiny, Bexar County's district attorney raised the possibility Wednesday of prosecuting the only eyewitness in the case — the same person who recently came forward to say Texas executed an innocent man. The witness, a Mexican national who was shot nine times on the same night his friend was murdered, told a jury in 1985 that Ruben Cantu was the killer. Since then, he has recanted, telling the Houston Chronicle that detectives pressured him into picking the then-17-year-old Cantu out of a photo lineup and providing the key...

Vigils, prayers mark Nguyen execution 02dec05 VAN Tuong Nguyen went to the gallows this morning amid silent protests in Australia and a vigil by his twin brother at Singapore's Changi Prison. The Australian drug trafficker was to be hanged at 6am local time (9am AEDT) after the Singapore government ruled out any last-minute reprieve. There was no immediate official notification of the execution, but in Melbourne a church where Nguyen went to school tolled its bell 25 times - once for every year of his life. In Singapore and in cities across Australia, there were protest vigils to mark the...

NOTE: More than 600 death row inmates who had been sentenced to death between 1967 and 1972 had their death sentences lifted as a result of Furman, but the numbers quickly began to build up again as states enacted revised legislation tailored to satisfy the Supreme Court's objections to arbitrary imposition of death sentences. The first execution under the new death penalty laws took place on January 17, 1977, when convicted murdered Gary Gilmore was executed by firing squad in Utah. Gilmore's was the first execution in the United States since 1967. After Gilmore, 998 more have been executed. Tookie...

The United States will likely reach this week the grim milestone of 1,000 executions of convicts since 1976, although capital punishment is declining with fewer juries choosing death sentences. A convicted murderer was put to death by lethal injection in Ohio on Tuesday, making him the 999th executed inmate since the Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment 29 years ago. John Hicks, 49, was killed by lethal injection in the prison of Lucasville, Ohio, state prison authorities said. Hicks was sentenced to death over the 1985 murder of his mother-in-law and five-year-old step-daughter. He was under the influence of drugs during...

RALEIGH, N.C., Nov. 30 (UPI) -- North Carolina prepared for an execution Friday that would be the 1,000th since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976. On Tuesday, Virginia Gov. Mark Warner granted clemency to Robin Lovitt, 42, who was convicted of killing a man during a 1999 Arlington, Va., pool hall robbery. Lovitt's reprieve put Kenneth Lee Boyd, 57, in line to become the 1,000th convict put to death since reinstatement of the death penalty, the Raleigh (N.C.) News and Observer reported. Boyd was convicted in the 1988 slayings of his estranged wife, Julie Boyd, and...

RALEIGH, N.C. - A killer on North Carolina's death row worried Wednesday about becoming a macabre footnote to history — the 1,000th person executed in the U.S. since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976. "I'd hate to be remembered as that," 57-year-old Kenneth Lee Boyd told The Associated Press in a prison interview. "I don't like the idea of being picked as a number." But with no doubt of Boyd's guilt in the shooting deaths of his estranged wife and her father in 1988, it appeared unlikely the courts or Gov. Mike Easley would stop the execution, set for 2...

Virginia Gov. Mark Warner yesterday granted clemency to convicted murderer Robin Lovitt, commuting his death sentence to life in prison and so delaying the 1,000th execution since the U.S. Supreme Court restored the death penalty in 1976. However, a spokesman for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said America’s landmark 461,500th murder since 1976 should proceed on schedule. “Our clients and future clients tell us that the domestic murder industry continues to be robust despite a decline in production in recent years,” said the unnamed ACLU source. “Americans should not worry that the stalled death penalty rate will hinder these...