Free Tookie? Options

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On December 13th 2005, Stan Tookie Williams will be excuted.

Stan was the co-founder in 1971 of the Los Angeles Crips gang. In 1981 he was convicted of murdering four people during two robberies and sentenced to death row at San Quentin State Prison. Stan deeply regrets his gang involvement but has always maintained his innocence of these crimes.

Stanley "Tookie" Williams receives no money for having written the Tookie Speaks Out series and Life in Prison. He is donating proceeds to several non-profit organizations, including Mothers Against Gang Wars, located in South Central Los Angeles, California. All donations and grants given to The Institute For Prevention Of Youth Violence, a nonprofit entity, will go toward funding a diverse group of programs that will assist children in becoming responsible, successful and self-confident people.

My question is - Should Governor Schwarzenegger grant him clemency? In what situation should the Governor grant clemency?


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If your interested, here's a site dedicated to saving Tookie. http://www.savetookie.org/index.html

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I don't think they should have done what they did to Tookie. People seem to overlook the fact that he is still human and humans make mistakes.

Personally, I don't believe in the death penalty and I think gangs are stupid and a cry for attention. Tookie didn't have a good childhood like most kids should and I don't know what its like to live in that kind of neighborhood where violence is held high, but I do know that Tookie was just trying to survive then.

There was no proof that he killed someone, so I don't know what to say when it comes to that but 'Maybe he did, Maybe he didn't.' People just look on the outside of things and say 'Yeah, he's just another poor azz black kid that shot people and ran around like he was crazy. We'll give him the boot and go on with the rest of our lives.'

To end it, I think they just should have let him live the rest of his life in prison. That penalty was just out of line.

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I don't think they should have done what they did to Tookie. People seem to overlook the fact that he is still human and humans make mistakes.

Last I checked not every human made the mistake of killing 4 people point blank.

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Last I checked not every human made the mistake of killing 4 people point blank.

Really? You walk around the entire world, shook their hand and asked, 'Have you ever made a mistake by killing 4 people?'

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Didn't think so.


Tookie was raised in a neighborhood where people beat other people, possibly for fun. If he was taught to do that to survive then so be it, form of self defense.

If that was even so, did you ask him why he killed them?

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Didn't think that either.