Jamie Foxx Wants B-Day Present From Governator

Fox News ^ | 10/31/2005 | Roger Friedman

[Cougr]

Oscar-winner Jamie Foxx turns 38 on Dec. 13, and there is only one birthday present he wants from California Gov. (and fellow actor) Arnold Schwarzenegger: clemency for Stan "Tookie" Williams.

Williams is an acclaimed author who has been mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize. He's also a convicted murderer who is set to be executed on Foxx's birthday after 24 years on death row.

"We can't let it happen," Foxx told me last night at the premiere of his new film, "Jarhead." "We've got to do everything we can to get the word out. Do you know they've collected nearly 30,000 signatures so far?"

Williams was sentenced to death in 1981 for the 1979 murder of a Los Angeles area 7-Eleven manager, and, shortly thereafter, three other people at a motel. He was already infamous at the time for founding the Los Angeles street gang the Crips, who were responsible for hundreds of deaths.

[Teacher317]

Actually, the state already got the dozens of signatures that mattered most when the evidence was presented, when the legal arguments were made and re-made, when the mandatory appeals were made, and when the subsequent appeals were made. In every case, the decision was unanimous that he should be put to death... and we're still waiting, 24 years later.

But if the race-baiters can gather a few thousand signatures from the sheep who know nothing of the actual facts, I guess that should be more important than our judiciary. =^/

[goresalooza]

I am so sick of these flaming libnut Hollyweirdos using their fame and their 15 minutes of it to scream about their political and/or religious beliefs.

Give me one other job (save that of a politician) where an employee is free to scream to others or the public that he's GOP or rat or Buddhist or an atheist.

I work as an RN...my job would last all of 10 seconds if I were to spout to patients I was admitting that I was a rightwinger and that clinton and the rats sucked.

If I'm not allowed to vent my political beliefs on the job, why is some nutbag like Foxx allowed to do so?

[Nightshift]

How right you are. This is the sad problem of our legal system
today.

[goldcrest]

wow 30,000 thousands signatures thats pretty impressive all by fellow inmates i asume .(bye bye tookie)