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  • STILLWELL: Death Penalty Double Standard: Tookie vs. Allen

    01/13/2006 11:59:25 AM PST · by SmithL · 10 replies · 250+ views
    NewsBusters ^ | 1/13/6 | Cinnamon Stillwell
    Readers will no doubt recall the hysteria from the mainstream media and anti-death penalty forces on the left over the execution of Stanley’s "Tookie" Williams last month. Countless articles were written bemoaning Tookie’s loss and news anchors spoke glowingly of his supposed contributions to ending gang violence. That Tookie himself was the founder of the notorious "Crips" gang, responsible for so much murder and mayhem over the years, didn’t seem to enter into the equation. Neither did the four people he murdered in cold blood. Now California’s next execution is scheduled for Tuesday, January 17, with multiple murderer Clarence Ray...
  • Justices Refuse Clemency for Crips Founder [Tookie William]

    11/30/2005 4:25:43 PM PST · by SmithL · 68 replies · 3,433+ views
    AP ^ | 11/30/5 | DAVID KRAVETS
    SAN FRANCISCO -- Crips co-founder Stanley Tookie Williams moved one step closer to the death chamber Wednesday when the California Supreme Court refused to reopen his case and halt the state's highest profile execution since the death penalty was reinstated. Williams, in a last-ditch legal move, alleged that shoddy forensic testing and other errors may have wrongly sent him to San Quentin State Prison, where he is scheduled to die by lethal injection Dec. 13. His lawyers asked that justices allow the re-examination of evidence that showed a shotgun registered to Williams was used to kill three people during a...