Posted on 11/24/2005 6:29:21 PM PST by SmithL
Sacramento -- A bevy of Nobel laureates and celebrities have written a letter urging Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to commute the death sentence of Stanley Tookie Williams, himself a Nobel Peace Prize nominee.
Williams, 51, the co-founder of the Crips gang convicted of four 1979 murders, is scheduled to be executed at San Quentin State Prison on Dec. 13.
The letter praises Williams' work as an anti-gang crusader, including writing children's books.
"Each year at the holiday season voices the world over cry out for peace," states the letter to the governor. "This year, one of them, a voice of great power, will be lost unless you act."
Among the signatories of the letter are Nobel Laureates Archbishop Desmond Tutu; Irene Kahn, secretary general of Amnesty International; and Mairead Corrigan Maguire, who founded the Community of the Peace People in 1976.
Among the celebrities who signed the letter are Jason Alexander, Jackson Browne, Russell Crowe, Carl Reiner and Susan Sarandon.
Kerry Kennedy Cuomo, with the Human Rights Center of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial, also signed the letter. She is a cousin of Schwarzenegger's wife, Maria Shriver.
On Monday, civil rights activists Jesse Jackson and Bianca Jagger visited Williams at San Quentin. His case has become a cause for many activists.
"Through his work, gang truces have been mediated, and long-standing wounds have been healed," the letter states. "Lives have been saved."
Williams has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize each year since 2000, initially by a member of the Swiss parliament and more recently by a Bay Area philosophy professor.
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I agree!
I'm afraid that anyone who tried to answer that question comprehensively would die of old age in mid-sentence.
This ain't the Apostle Paul.
This is a piece of human garbage that has causd an amount of suffering that cannot be measured to individuals who only want to live their lives and not bother anyone.
Now if you would agree to allow him to live in your house....
Paul was not a criminal, but an agent of the law killing capital offenders, until he converveted to Christianity.
He is not in prison to be reformed. He is in prison on death row to be executed. IF (Big IF) he is reformed or not is not relevant.
Maybe if he had murdered a few worthless celebrities or Nobel Prize winners, they wouldn't be so hot to try and get this guy off death row.
10 posted on 11/24/2005 6:37:59 PM PST by Hexenhammer
That would not be murder. That would be justifiable homicide.
He is sorry he got caught at any rate.
My money says that he could be released from prison Sunday night and by Monday morning he would be practicing his old trade [killing and robbing].
Reference your post # 12:
Amen!
Tookie must Die!
Got Milk?
Ahnold should thank her for her opinion and pardon Sirhan Sirhan instead.
But what about all those children books he writes? What about Snoop Doggy Dog? What will all the gangstas' do? What will Pac Man do?
I wonder if...oh why bother, deciphering the Liberal mind and why they think the way they do is like searching for the bottom of the abyss.
15 posted on 11/24/2005 6:42:34 PM PST by bubman
A Liberal does not have a mind to deciper.
Any second now, they are going to start blaming President Bush.
Looks like a partial list of the usual suspects, doesn't it?
This is Tookie, not Paul.
Wonder how he can be sorry for something he doesn't admit to doing. Oh, maybe he is sorry for having been caught for what he did.
You can't kill these animals fast enough to suit me.
Took Took Tookie Goodbye
Took Took Tookie please die...
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