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LIL MZ MISCHEIF
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http://www.ktvu.com/deathrow/5519596/detail.html
Schwarzenegger Denies Williams Clemency Plea
POSTED: 12:37 pm PST December 12, 2005
UPDATED: 12:54 pm PST December 12, 2005
SAN QUENTIN -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday refused to spare the life of Stanley Tookie Williams, the founder of the murderous Crips gang who awaited execution after midnight in a case that stirred debate over capital punishment and the possibility of redemption on death row.
Schwarzenegger was unswayed by pleas from Hollywood stars and petitions from more than 50,000 people who said that Williams had made amends during more than two decades in prison by writing a memoir and children's books about the dangers of gangs.
"After studying the evidence, searching the history, listening to the arguments and wrestling with the profound consequences, I could find no justification for granting clemency," Schwarzenegger said, less than 12 hours before the execution. "The facts do not justify overturning the jury's verdict or the decisions of the courts in this case."
Schwarzenegger could have commuted the death sentence to life in prison without parole.
With a reprieve from the federal courts considered unlikely, Williams, 51, was set to die by injection at San Quentin State Prison early Tuesday for murdering four people in two 1979 holdups.
Williams' fate became one of the nation's biggest death-row cause celebres in decades.
Prosecutors and victims' advocates contended Williams was undeserving of clemency from the governor because he did not own up to his crimes and refused to inform on fellow gang members. They also argued that the Crips gang that Williams co-founded in Los Angeles in 1971 is responsible for hundreds of deaths, many of them in battles with the rival Bloods for turf and control of the drug trade.
Williams stood to become the 12th California condemned inmate executed since lawmakers reinstated the death penalty in 1977 after a brief hiatus.
Williams was condemned in 1981 for gunning down a clerk in a convenience store holdup and a mother, father and daughter in a motel robbery weeks later. Williams claimed he was innocent.
The last time a California governor granted clemency was in 1967, when Ronald Reagan spared a mentally infirm killer. Schwarzenegger -- a Republican who has come under fire from members of his own party as too accommodating to liberals -- rejected clemency twice before during his two years in office.
Just before the governor announced his decision on clemency, the 9th U.S. Circuit of Appeals denied Williams' request for a reprieve, saying among other things that there was no "clear and convincing evidence of actual innocence."
In his last-ditch appeal, Williams claimed that he should have been allowed to argue at his trial that someone else killed one of the four victims, and that shoddy forensics connected him to the other killings.
Williams was convicted of killing Yen-I Yang, 76, Tsai-Shai Chen Yang, 63, and Yu-Chin Yang Lin, 43, at a Los Angeles motel the family owned, and Albert Owens, 26, a 7-Eleven clerk gunned down in Whittier.
Among the celebrities who took up Williams' cause were Jamie Foxx, who played the gang leader in a cable movie about Williams; rapper Snoop Dogg, himself a former Crip; Sister Helen Prejean, the nun depicted in "Dead Man Walking"; Bianca Jagger; and former "M..A..S..H" star Mike Farrell. During Williams' 24 years on death row, a Swiss legislator, college professors and others nominated him for the Nobel Prizes in peace and literature.
"If Stanley Williams does not merit clemency," defense attorney Peter Fleming Jr. asked, "what meaning does clemency retain in this state?"
The impending execution resulted in feverish preparations over the weekend by those on both sides of the debate, with the California Highway Patrol planning to tighten security outside the prison, where hundreds of protesters were expected.
A group of about three dozen death penalty protesters were joined by the Rev. Jesse Jackson as they marched across the Golden Gate Bridge after dawn Monday en route to the gates of San Quentin, where they were expected to rally with hundreds of people.
At least publicly, the person apparently least occupied with his fate seemed to be Williams himself.
"Me fearing what I'm facing, what possible good is it going to do for me? How is that going to benefit me?" Williams said in a recent interview. "If it's my time to be executed, what's all the ranting and raving going to do?"
here is also a link to all of the people currently on death row
http://images.ibsys.com/2005/0311/4276403.pdf
[ December 12, 2005, 03:01 PM: Message edited by: LiL_MZ_MiSChEiF ]
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Is ok, probly better to start a new one anyways ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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The only thing that Williams had going for him was hope.
I'm not a "fan" of the death penalty, and can see arguments from both sides, but the bottom line is that the death penalty is law here in Cali... and after reading a ton of articles on his case, I can honestly say that I hope there is closure for all parties involved.
RIP ![[patriot]](graemlins/patriot.gif)
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Now another question lies, will there be rioting?
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thank fucking god!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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quote:
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Now another question lies, will there be rioting?
me and my uncle have a bet going to on to see if there is going to be rioting. i say there is going to be rioting and my uncle thinks there wont.
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They should have been done with this crap earlier to save us some tax money.
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I also heard that Tookie had connects from inside the Cells to Crips on the streets :: Since he was the original leader -
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Terminated.
dont do the crime, if you dont wanna do the time....
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The main problem with the death penalty is making sure you have the guilty person. There have been over 120 people on death row that were found to be innocent. Just think how many other innocent people have been executed????
If he is innocent or not, keeping him alive will do way more than killing him. If he can help change the lives for the good of some, let him live. With him dead, he can help no one.
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If he REEEEEEAAAAALLLLYY wants kids to learn not to be in gangs and kill other people then he should stick himself with the needle and last words being "see children, if you kill, do drugs and are in gangs THIS could be you" then he dies.
the end
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quote:
Originally posted by Jdub07:
If he REEEEEEAAAAALLLLYY wants kids to learn not to be in gangs and kill other people then he should stick himself with the needle and last words being "see children, if you kill, do drugs and are in gangs THIS could be you" then he dies.
the end
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It's too bad the victim's family's have had to see Him living His life all this time while their family member's lives were cut short for some pocket change. ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif) This also suck's for us taxpayer's who have payed million's to keep this animal alive all these year's. Maybe some of these idiot's will realize that the state is serious about carrying out their sentences and won'tbe so quick to pull the trigger on innocent people. I hope He is as scared now as the people were before He took their lives. R.I.P Bitch!
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I see and understand both sides of the argument but becuase of what he has done and created(crips) and what they have done there will be no forgiving tookie. But i think there will be there will be rioting there are to many hot headed people out there for there not to be any.
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Originally posted by LiL_MZ_MiSChEiF:
i think that there will be rioting like no tommorrow... guess we'll find out soon enough....
i hope not,,
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Hasta la Vista.....baby
Shoulda been done much sooner.
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terminated by the terminator...gotta love it
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terminated by the terminator...gotta love it
LOL yup Governator aquired the target and is ready to terminate.
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He getting what he deserves.
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Shame he isn't getting the chair. I could see the parody songs about it.
Just imagine Limp Bizkit singing about Tookie.
Tookie's going to bake like a cookie,
what?,
a cookie!,
what!
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