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(Tookie) Williams' attorneys make clemency plea to governor
Mercury News ^ | 12-8-05 | Kravets

Posted on 12/08/2005 12:12:45 PM PST by doug from upland

ENTIRE STORY: http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/13352740.htm

SACRAMENTO - Death penalty opponents rallied outside the Capitol on Thursday as lawyers for Stanley Tookie Williams took their case to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in a final effort to spare the Crips gang founder from execution.

A group of about 75 demonstrators chanted, "Love life, save Stan's life," as the governor met behind closed doors with defense lawyers and prosecutors to weigh the fate of a man condemned for four 1979 murders who claims he turned his life around on death row.

Clemency, which would commute a death sentence to life without parole, is likely the only avenue left for the gangster-turned-preacher of peace. Williams, 51, is scheduled to die Tuesday by lethal injection.

(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: frytookie; noclemency; stanleywilliams; terminator; tookie; tookiemustdie
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To: doug from upland
John and Ken of KFI in Los Angeles have driven Tookie supporters crazy with that great hour.

Just how of curiosity, how are you defining supporter? I mean would Ollie North be a Tookie supporter because he's against the death penalty?

61 posted on 12/08/2005 2:29:56 PM PST by Melas (What!? Read or learn something? Why would anyone do that, when they can just go on being stupid)
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To: sixgunjer

Europeans are have an automatic reflex when it comes to opposing the death penalty when America does it....
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This is the bane of liberalism. Our laws are what count. This murderer was convicted and sentenced to death. No evidence has been produced that would counter that verdict. He should die, as he should have 26 years ago (disgusting onto itself)...what Europeans think better not enter into this AT ALL. It is AMERICAN LAW, AMERICAN COURTS and an AMERICAN DEATH PENALTY. Nothing else should enter into it.


62 posted on 12/08/2005 2:32:53 PM PST by EagleUSA
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To: Melas

Local activists who have marched, protested, and written a letter of complaint to the FCC.


63 posted on 12/08/2005 2:44:35 PM PST by doug from upland (The troops will come home when the mission is complete)
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To: doug from upland

Lyrics, please, DFU!

How about:

Tookie got run over by a gurney
Waiting vainly for the governor's reprieve.
You can't say there's no such thing as justice,
It's Tookie's turn to take a terminal leave.

for starters?


64 posted on 12/08/2005 2:45:19 PM PST by MaggieCarta (Merry Christmas to All)
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To: dinoparty
God forgives; so can people.

God only forgives if the guilty party repents. This guy hasn't done that yet. I do not forgive him and would gladly throw the switch or give the injection, or drop the cyanide capsules into the acid, whatever way they choose to do it.

65 posted on 12/08/2005 2:58:42 PM PST by calex59 (Seeing the light shouldn't make you blind...)
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To: MaggieCarta
Where have you been? I did that song two weeks ago, and the eBay auction for framed and signed lyrics is almost over.

TOOKIE GOT RUN OVER BY A GURNEY

It even has the link to go get the MIDI music.

66 posted on 12/08/2005 2:59:24 PM PST by doug from upland (The troops will come home when the mission is complete)
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To: doug from upland
Unbelievable.

I wonder if that semi-retarded snoop and the rest of the "save tookie" crowd ever read this?

Probably not.

Thanks for the link.

67 posted on 12/08/2005 3:12:06 PM PST by Recovering Hermit
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To: EagleUSA
Capital Punishment is Life Affirming.
68 posted on 12/08/2005 3:18:13 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum.)
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To: doug from upland

Nuke Tookie!


69 posted on 12/08/2005 3:18:25 PM PST by bk1000 (A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory)
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To: Recovering Hermit
"I wonder if that semi-retarded snoop and the rest of the "save tookie" crowd ever read this?"

Your presupposition of their literacy has me LOL....

70 posted on 12/08/2005 3:19:08 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum.)
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To: doug from upland

I've been busy, old chap.

Whoa! You can sell parodies on eBay? Thanks!


71 posted on 12/08/2005 3:21:46 PM PST by MaggieCarta ("Merry Christmas to all, to all a good night"--St. Nick, as written by Samuel Clemens)
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To: Joe 6-pack
Your presupposition of their literacy has me LOL....

I wonder if that semi-retarded snoop and the rest of the "save tookie" crowd ever read this had somebody read this to them?

Fixed it!

72 posted on 12/08/2005 3:24:04 PM PST by Recovering Hermit
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To: Recovering Hermit
To listen to his advocates, tookie has, during his death row sojourn, evolved into some type of superhuman, lower level deity with proto-divine qualities, sort of a Christ-Ghandi-Siddhartha-Mr. Roger and Pee-Wee Herman all rolled into one.

Since tookie has assumed his seat on a higher plane, and his life is clearly far more valuable than the rest of us who have never written a children's book or founded a blood thirsty pack of street mongrels, I think the only logical course is for one of the "save tookie" crowd to volunteer to take the needle for tookie. I'd support that. The pure altruism of the gesture would be truly impressive. It would certainly be enough to keep me from ever joining a gang.

73 posted on 12/08/2005 3:43:04 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum.)
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To: Recovering Hermit

...and then tookie could run for Secretary General of the UN.


74 posted on 12/08/2005 3:45:00 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum.)
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To: MaggieCarta

The money will go to FR.


75 posted on 12/08/2005 3:50:38 PM PST by doug from upland (The troops will come home when the mission is complete)
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To: Joe 6-pack
Hey, speak for yourself about not writing children's books. :)


76 posted on 12/08/2005 3:53:59 PM PST by doug from upland (The troops will come home when the mission is complete)
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To: doug from upland
"Hey, speak for yourself about not writing children's books. :)

I did try to market a "Crips is fo' Kids" coloring book, but too many children ended up getting shot for showing the wrong colors.

77 posted on 12/08/2005 3:58:47 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum.)
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To: Ouderkirk
I doubt that mike farrell read it

Mike Farell, to sum up his rationale for not executing Williams: " I didn't see him kill anyone".

Read it here - WARNING - You may puke.
78 posted on 12/08/2005 4:18:56 PM PST by keat (Who the f___ is I. Lewis Libby?)
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To: doug from upland

OMG, I read this. WHY is this man even CONSIDERED for clemency? I am NOT a death penalty advocate, but this is sickening. This man should have never been born. The world would have been a better place.


79 posted on 12/08/2005 4:37:48 PM PST by boop (Testing the tagline feature!)
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To: boop

A great read, huh? Most people don't have a clue.


80 posted on 12/08/2005 4:43:59 PM PST by doug from upland (The troops will come home when the mission is complete)
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