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.
No shizzle mah nizzle!
killer should sizzle, but drugs will drizzle in his veinizzles.
"Here is a picture (I believe) of a pro-Tookie rally."
Actually its the crips' version of a candlelight vigil outside the prison.
time for the woodchipper, then chum the slop of wild boars, then herd them off a coastal cliff.
Song:
"Law is kinda crazy
with a Tookie little Man like you.
TOOOOKIIE!"
You are jihadi- or are you not? Regardless of your stupid answer- Mohammhed was a liar and so are you- no matter.
Snoop Dogg, Jesse Jackson, Desmond Tutu, Harry Belafonte, Russell Crowe, actor Mike Farrell, Academy Award-winner Jamie Foxx and former model Bianca Jagger
-----The messege they are sending is " We approve of murder" and should be made into a t-shirt and have all of their names on it for people to wear and see next time they want to go to the box office and pay to see these ignorant lowlifes .
The anti-caucasian and racist Rasafarian religion in Jamaica.
Their ideology is that white men are devils. Marcus Garvey in the early 1900's said an African King would become the black messiah. Ras Tafari was crowned King Haile Selassie of Ethiopia and proclaimed to be their messiah in 1930.
According to the Rastafarian pagans, Ras Tafari did not die in 1975, but went to another dimension. He is called “Jah” and considered to be a god. A pagan perversion of Christian theology .
Of course all of this lunacy is centered around smoking the ganga weed and doing drugs.
That is partly why these feminized males will defend pot smoking, drug abuse and deviant use of their anatomy and are not safe to have around children...
IT IS AN ICON OF THEIR RELIGION THEY ARE DEFENDING!
Look at all your contemporary liberals in Hollyworld, along with all the leftist morons out there and you will see how their cultural Marxism all fit neatly with the above model...
1001
No steroids there.
Look around at all the liberals, the dopers, the sex perverts, the entertainers, and all all the other trash... the real fight here is a new age, neo-pagan religious advocacy... (look at their fashions, their music, their “poetry,” their lifestyles).
Tookie Williams and Mumia Abu Jamal, what do they have in common??? What do their supporters have in common??? It is all related to neo-pagan ideology, along with the likes of Michael Jackson, Jesse Jackson, and the long list of liberal sychopants and can be related to this:
The anti-caucasian and racist Rasafarian religion in Jamaica.
Their ideology is that white men are devils. Marcus Garvey in the early 1900's said an African King would become the black messiah. Ras Tafari was crowned King Haile Selassie of Ethiopia and proclaimed to be their messiah in 1930.
According to the Rastafarian pagans, Ras Tafari did not die in 1975, but went to another dimension. He is called “Jah” and considered to be a god. A pagan perversion of Christian theology .
Of course all of this lunacy is centered around smoking the ganga weed and doing drugs.
That is partly why these feminized males will defend pot smoking, drug abuse and deviant use of their anatomy and are not safe to have around children...
IT IS AN ICON OF THEIR RELIGION THEY ARE DEFENDING!
Look at all your contemporary liberals in Hollyworld, along with all the leftist morons out there and you will see how their cultural Marxisms all fit neatly within the above model...
Yeshua also said:
“Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.”
IT IS AN ICON OF THEIR RELIGION THEY ARE DEFENDING!
----They are defending a murderer. I could care less if it is an icon of their religion.
Once the death penalty is abolished, the criminal-loving liberals will go after life without parole as cruel and unusual punishment. The NYT has already begun editorializing this position. Then, the families of victims will be sentenced to a lifetime of parole hearings to make sure the criminal is not released by some parole bureaucrat.
I heard this POS(tookie) on the tv last night. Some guy named Tavis Smiley was interviewing him, and fawning all over tookie. Tookie said he was convicted simply because he was black(basically). There was not solid evidence against him. The shotgun shells didn't match his shotgun, there were no witnesses, the jury was all white, yada yada yada. Never once did the pos admit he did anything wrong, but rather it was all a frame-up by the police and prosecutor.
All I have to say after hearing that interview is "Tookie wake up and smell the gas!"
You have stated a truth, about gamin' cons. Thank you.
Put him in the chair and strap Mumia to his lap.
He should have been executed years ago.
SFD, I am missing your point, as to witches correlating to conniving murdering bastards. I would greatly appreciate a more direct view to your opinion on the death penalty. It is my simple minded opinion that Christ Jesus was killed by a vengence of neglect, in courts ruled by men of highly improbable worth.
The death penalty will never be abolished, since the lawyers & state, generate outrageous money flow from such cases. This is the reason for endless delays in executions, in wealthy states- and the only reason. Texas would slow down, if the revenue for prisons was higher. That's the fact- none of these circumstances have anything to do with victim's rights or their family's feelings. Unless one of these bastards happen to murder a LEO or a politico's family. Different cut of the cards for some folks. Hey, even G-d has said life ain't fair- but it will be justified, by the by...
Hang Him.
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