Posted on 11/29/2005 11:17:14 PM PST by goldstategop
The convicted quadruple murderer who founded the notorious Crips street gang has mobilized Hollywood celebrities in a bid to avert execution next month. This, despite admitting his crimes to others, the eyewitness accounts of accomplices, and jailhouse plots to escape by killing two sheriff's deputies and, later, one of those who testified against him.
Stanley "Tookie" Williams is scheduled to be executed Dec. 13 by lethal injection but is appealing to California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for clemency, with the help of celebrities such as Snoop Dogg, Jesse Jackson, Desmond Tutu, Harry Belafonte, Russell Crowe, actor Mike Farrell, Academy Award-winner Jamie Foxx and former model Bianca Jagger.
But a review by WND of the Los Angeles County district attorney's response to the petition for clemency provides a glimpse of the evidence against the nominee for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Williams, 51, was convicted of the 1979 murders of Tsai-Shai Yang, Yen-I Yang, Yee-Chen Lin and Albert Owens in two separate robberies. Imprisoned since 1981, he is asking Schwarzenegger to grant him clemency because he says he has earned redemption through the writing of children's books.
"Stanley Williams does not deserve this mercy," said the DA's report to the governor. "In fact, despite the overwhelming nature of the evidence against him, and despite the non-existence of any credible defense, Stanley Williams has steadfastly refused to take any responsibility for the brutal, destructive, and murderous acts he committed. Without such responsibility, there can be no redemption, there can be no atonement, and there should be no mercy."
Though Williams has steadfastly denied committing the four murders, the DA's report says he admitted the crimes to the following people:
James Garrett, a man with whom Williams lived most of the time before and after the murders were committed. The DA says Garrett possessed specific details of the crime and that Williams threatened to kill one of his accomplices, Alfred Coward.
Ester Garrett, the wife of James Garrett, who said Williams characterized the Taiwanese motel owners murdered in one of the robberies as "Buddhaheads." She said Williams also admitted killing another "white dude" for $63 and indicated he was also considering killing Coward.
Coward, one of Williams' accomplices, testified that Williams laughed about the murder of Owens. "You should have heard the way he sounded when I shot him," Coward recalled Williams saying. He followed this statement with growling noises.
Tony Sims, another accomplice did not testify in the Williams' case because he was not offered immunity. But his sworn testimony in his own trial, in which he received a life sentence, corroborated the account of Coward. In subsequent parole hearings over the last 26 years, his account of Williams' execution-style murders of the victims has never changed. In addition, the DA report says Williams implicated himself in the murders at the motel by telling deputies after his arrest that five shots were fired.
"Williams, in a moment of mistaken candor, provided detectives with information only the killer would know," the report says. "Moreover, he repeated that knowledge twice. When confronted with this apparent knowledge, Williams against acting as the guilty party, retracted the statements and denied saying what he had just been heard to say. These statements and Williams' immediate retraction of them are admissions to the Brookhaven (Motel) murders. Williams knew five shots were fired because it was Williams who pulled the trigger each of those five times."
The DA report also contains revelations about a plot by Williams to escape from the Los Angeles County Jail, killing two deputies in the process and then murdering Coward.
Rapper Snoop Dogg rallies on behalf of Tookie Williams
That plan was disclosed by fellow inmate George Oglesby, who provided handwritten notes and detailed maps. Two armed people on the outside were to aid the plan, which involved blowing up a prisoner transport bus with dynamite to delay identification of who escaped.
In one of those notes, Williams wrote that Coward was a "heartbeat away from death." Oglesby said Williams planned to kill Coward because he was a witness against him.
While Williams' celebrity cheerleaders have claimed he has been a model prisoner throughout his sentence and have pointed to this as evidence of his rehabilitation, the DA's report contains 11 examples of incidents for which he was disciplined, beginning in 1981 and continuing through 1993. They include:
a violent fight with another inmate June 30, 1981, in which he repeatedly struck the prisoner while kneeling over him;
a refusal to line up for a return to his cell Jan. 26, 1982, in which he threatened a guard;
throwing a chemical substance in the eyes of a guard Jan. 28, 1982, in an attack that resulted in chemical burns and emergency treatment;
a second attack on a guard with a chemical substance Jan. 29, 1982;
an attack on another inmate Feb. 16, 1984, in which Williams only stopped beating the prisoner when a warning shot was fired;
a threat to kill a guard June 8, 1984;
the beating of another inmate July 4, 1986 that only ceased when armed officers arrived on the scene;
another fight with an inmate that led to his own stabbing, reportedly retaliation for his ordering another inmate to be stabbed;
his continued association with the Crips street gang led to administrative segregation Oct. 19, 1988;
the beating of another inmate Dec. 24, 1991, that only stopped after a warning shot was fired;
another fight with other inmates July 6, 1993, in which a stabbing instrument (shank) was recovered. The DA's report also says Williams threatened all of the jurors after they found him guilty.
"Specifically, the defendant looked at the jurors and said he 'was going to get all' of them," said the report. "After learning of this threat, the trial judge inquired of the jury foreperson. The foreperson confirmed the defendant mouthed the words 'I'm going to get each and every one of you m-----f------."
The DA also points out that Williams has steadfastly refused to be debriefed about his in-depth knowledge of the Crips street gang.
"This gang is responsible for the regular commission of crimes such as murder, rape, robbery and drug sales," says the report. "The gang has taken over large areas of many of our communities. As a result, hard-working, law-abiding citizens are forced to live in daily fear that gang members might take their lives."
In 2004, the city of Los Angeles alone, gang crimes accounted for 291 homicides, 717 attempted homicides, 2,616 felony assaults, 61 attacks on police officers, 2,308 robberies, 44 kidnappings, 36 rapes, 754 acts of witness intimidation, 20 acts of extortion and 188 carjackings.
"Although Stanley Williams is not directly responsible for every gang crime committed today, he was an integral founding member of a gang that has contributed, and continues to contribute, to the gang problem with devastating force," says the report. "This plague on our society continues to spread, and continues to take lives on a daily basis. Williams unleashed this violence in no less a manner than if he had released a deadly virus into our communities."
Williams' lawyers are reportedly trying to secure a meeting with Schwarzenegger in their bid for clemency.
Douglas, what do you think Arnold is going to do? Didn't he deny clemency to a couple of killers just after he took office? I think there's a fairly good chance that he will deny clemency in this case and let the execution proceed.
With no doubt- that's a fact.
Did you see the segment on Fox (hanity) tonight were the Liberals are starting to drum up the idea of race riots if Tookies sentence is carried out? Why is it the (white) leftist entertainment media is out there suggesting this? And why are they not being arrested for it?
Arnold has let many more off the hook than did Gray Davis. In this case, if he allows Tookie to live, his political career dies. I think Tookie dies. There is still an unknown element, however. Will a federal judge somewhere jump into this and stop it? On what basis it could be done, I don't know, but liberal judges have done many things they should be allowed to do.
Why should the taxpayers - including the families of his victims - pay to keep the POS fed, clothed and housed?
An NYPD officer was just killed by a punk who also shot and wounded an off duty officer about a week ago. The guy has been in trouble before, too much as a matter of fact. Take no mercy on these sacks of trash. Let them all write childrens books so they have something to read on the way to hell. Those celebs, in my opinion are huge and I mean HUGE piles of **** who offer NOTHING to society. Let 'Tookie' live with Mike Farrell or Jamie Foxx or see if they would even consider that notion rather than Tookie getting the spike. F em all.
I would presume that, if necessary to save your child, you would kill someone who broke into your house and was holding a knife to your child's throat. In that case, you would have killed him before he did any physical harm. But if he did murder your child, you would not want the death penalty. Help me understand that. So, he dies if he doesn't murder, but he lives if he sucessfully murders. No one has been able to convince me how that makes any sense.
Your tag line is really amusing....lol...he he, ho ho...lol. Seriously, that's really a good one.
Where do you draw that immutable line? I am sure you have heard the following before- it costs millions to kill these bastards. To house them for natural life, costs $150,000 to $200,000. That's the reality answer to your query- although that only answers part of your real question.
Doug, given your scenario, the perp's life is in my hands- and he/she would not survive to the 9-11 call answered. So, if you have experienced such an event, I understand your position.
I think you have it almost backwards
Doesnt it cost $50K a year to keep them alive?
Tookie should sizzle fo' shizzle.
The truly unbelievable high costs for Death Row inmates are towards the legal machine involved with appeals, etc. Now, housing a natural lifer in Cal DOC can be adjusted & projected to any figure that suits the DOC's books. This is a real problem in this State- there is no real oversight on the CO's union. The State Workers via Dems are killing us, currently, and for the forsaken future.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
Tookie William's "children's book" was ghost written for him. It's been in the Los Angeles public library for five years and checked-out twice. (Not a major social influence.)
Tookie's Nobel Prize nomination was bought and paid-for by a French journalist who is opposed to the death penalty.
Here is a picture (I believe) of a pro-Tookie rally.
NEWS FLASH ON TOOKIE WILLIAMS. tookie has just been named the king of the kwanzaa holiday period. i just heard that on local los angeles radio. a spokeswoman who i could barely understand, i dont speak ebonics, sorry, said that tookie has been crowned the king of kwanzaa, even though there is a good chance white racist america will murder this innocent man. she further went on to say that america is so maltreating blacks that michael jackson had to flee the country just so he could survive these racist attacks. her last statement was that if tookie is murdered, there could be lots of trouble out in the streets, she said, we aint gonna let the racists sleep this one off free of charge. well, there you have it, enjoy.
The Terminator had better not be a 'girlie-man'
You know whats going to happen, the usual suspects will hint at rioting if numbnuts is executed. Arnald will cave.
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