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  • LA judge signs death warrant for Crips gang co-founder ('Tookie' has a date on Dec. 13th)

    10/24/2005 11:18:46 AM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 57 replies · 3,197+ views
    ap on Monterey Herald ^ | 10/24/05 | Tim Molloy - ap
    LOS ANGELES - A judge signed a death warrant Monday for convicted killer and Crips co-founder Stanley "Tookie" Williams, rejecting his attorneys' request for a nine-day delay in his execution date. Williams is scheduled to die Dec. 13 at San Quentin prison for four murders committed in 1979. His lawyers asked that the date be set for Dec. 22 so they would have more time to ask Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for clemency. Williams was sentenced in 1981 to die for four killings during two holdups. "This case has taken over 24 years to get to this point," Superior Court Judge...
  • Patient wants to live, but old 'living will' mandates death

    10/20/2005 5:52:22 PM PDT · by wagglebee · 419 replies · 9,588+ views
    WorldNetDaily ^ | 10/20/05 | Diana Lynne
    He says he wants to live. But his wife, caregivers and South Carolina state officials are so focused on carrying out a decade-old, out-of-state living will that 79-year-old Jimmy Chambers can't get a word in edgewise. That's the account of 10 of Chambers's children and their spouses who signed sworn affidavits in an attempt to block their mother from removing his life-sustaining ventilator, which would cause his death. It's a case that's reminiscent of the Terri Schiavo controversy which captured the attention of millions around the world, in which a fault line opened up in the middle of a formerly...