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As we watched the build up to the “Tookie” Williams’ execution last night, I was struck by the amount of bleeding heart liberals who came out pleading for the life of the founder of one of Los Angeles and the Nation’s most notorious gangs. This is a man who was convicted of the brutal slaying of four innocent people twenty five years ago and had a full quarter century to appeal his conviction. I propose a trade with the Left. They obviously care more for the life of convicted murderers than they do unborn children. Therefore, I propose trading capital...

by JR Tookie Williams, the co-founder of the violent Crips street gang, was executed by lethal injection at 12:01 AM for the 1979 robbery murders of four people in Los Angeles. The execution went ahead as scheduled after the U.S. Supreme Court late Monday rejected a last-minute appeal. The high court's ruling followed California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's decision to deny clemency for Williams. "Based on the cumulative weight of the evidence, there is no reason to second-guess the jury's decision of guilt or raise significant doubts or serious reservations about Williams' convictions and death sentence," Schwarzenegger said in a five-page...

As a Catholic, I hold a respect for all human life; even that which has not demonstrated itself worthy of such. My case in point is one Stanley Williams (aka. “Tookie”). This man helped form one of the most ruthless and bloodthirsty street gangs in modern history. Although, after roughly an hour worth of searching, I can’t find any solid statistics to back up the vast number of claims circling the internet, from what I gather, the group is responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent people, not-to-mention the thousands of youths whose lives have been destroyed by...

THE CASE AGAINST STANLEY WILLIAMS by Timothy Rollins, Editor and Publisher December 12, 2005 Barring the unexpected wherein Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-CA) (right) grants clemency to convicted capital murderer and Crips co-founder Stanley "Tookie" Williams, Stanley will get up close and personal with the death chamber just before midnight tonight as he is strapped to a gurney. At 12:01, the lethal cocktail of chemicals will flow into his veins and end - once and for all - the life of this barbarian, and like Timothy McVeigh and others of his ilk, he, too, can ride the Highway to Hell, where...

THEY'RE JUST LOOKING FOR A EXCUSE, NOT A REASON. The California Supreme Court has now had its last say in the case of murderer Tookie Williams. No stay of execution. It's now up to Governor Schwarzenegger. Tookie's supporters are pulling out all of the stops. Now they've even come up with a last-minute witness that can prove Tookie's innocence. Yeah, sure. Don't you just love those "last-minute witness" things? Who is on Tookie's side here? Well, we have pretty much the normal cast of characters. We have the NAACP, of course, and we have actors and rappers. There's also the...

The procedure for executing a prisoner in San Quentin, the only prison in California with a death chamber, is bound by rigid rules dictating when and how each act must be performed -- from the moment the inmate wakes up on his last day of life until the moment he dies. * * * "We try to keep this very professional," said prison spokesman Sgt. Eric Messick. "I can't see it being done any other way -- you have to treat everyone, especially the inmate, with dignity and respect. This is a very somber event." * * * If the...

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...