Posted on 12/12/2005 4:04:06 PM PST by indcons
LOS ANGELES - As word spread Monday afternoon that Gov. Schwarzenegger had turned down Stanley Tookie Williams' last-ditch bid for clemency, reaction on the streets where Williams launched the Crips gang 35 years ago was muted.
Some residents were saddened by the news, saying the governor had missed a golden opportunity to show true compassion hours before Williams' scheduled execution just past midnight. Others, though, felt anything but compassion for the man whose legacy in south central Los Angeles stills seems like nothing but gang colors, bullets and blood.
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Uh, Rev how about the decision Toolie made to execute four human beings.....?
Gov. Pat Brown made sure he breathed cyanide anyway.
I remember the Robert Altman execution in CA. The threat of "candlelight vigils" surrounding San Quentin. I took my family up to the redwoods to avoid all the nonsense. In the end, CA Governor Wilson stayed the execution. I took my family out for hamburgers for lunch in Humboldt County.
Gov Wilson did right. My children were of age for all this to be discussed. They reasoned that Innocent Life is precious. And those who steal life from innocents are an evil upon a peacable, civilized society.
The same people who railed and candlelight "vigiled" for the stay of execution for Robert Alton tended to be the very same who treat cutting down "innocent trees" as an evil; and that therefore, these people were unbalanced, and possibly insane; but certainly not logical nor coherently consistent
The governor's action did show true compassion ... to the families of the four victims that Williams mudered in cold blood.
I like the way the Gov said why he refused Tookie.
OMG! And so the sociopath wrote and wrote to sucker more flies into his web. WOW. Thanks for the link.
Arnold's statement denying clemency is excellent. See it on realclearpolitics.com
One of Chessman's victims lost her sanity and died in a mental ward. He as much as killed her. He deserved to die
You'll get no argument from me.
Caryl Chessman did not kill any one. He was known as the red light bandit. He would stake out lovers lanes and assault people as they were parked. I believe the controversy in the Chessman case is that he was not convicted of killing anyone.
I just heard tat FEMA officials have set up staging areas with bottled water and Similac, and have the Tookie memorial debit cards ready to go. . .
Rapid response teams are en route to South Central, and will be in place prior to the execution. . .
"``There is a fate worse than death and that's the decision to execute a human being,'' said the Rev. Greg Boyle"
Then I guess Tookie is suffering a fate worse than death four times over, because he "executed" four innocent people. Stop being a sap, Reverend. Look at the damage Tookie and his friends did to your community. And then tell me he's worthy of your sympathy.
More tookie-dookie.
LOL ... how about:
- "Life-Term Abortion",
- "Very-Late-Term Abortion", or maybe
- "Partial-Life Abortion"
"Tookie isn't being executed - he's being aborted."
- "Life-Term Abortion",
- "Very-Late-Term Abortion", or maybe
- "Partial-Life Abortion"
LOL...best posts of the day.
The controversy in Chessman's case was fanned by the fact that he wrote an autobiography, "Cell 2455, Death Row". It became a best seller. He was quite articulate, and sounded like someone who might be rehabilitated.
He wasn't accused of killing anyone, but as someone said, preyed on lover's lane couples. Evidently the Red Light Bandit made his women victims commit oral sex, and believe it or not in this era of Bill Clintoon, a lot of people were sincerely shocked and sickened by this.
As I recall, he turned down a plea which would have spared his life, and then made the mistake of representing himself at his trial. He himself admitted that he had a fool for a client.
He was on California's death row longer than anyone else had ever been (14 years +/-).
He was executed at San Quentin in 1960, and that stirred up a nationwide controversy about the death penalty. I believe it wasn't too long afterwards that the Supremes ruled against the death penalty, and that was probably fueled by Chessman's case.
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