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

[*disco infiltrator*]

Obviously not, seeing as we are still having to resort to the death penalty. If someone is killing multiple others, do you think they care if they die? Just like you said - him, afraid of death? If he supposedly killed someone, do you think that he is afraid of his own death?

Those who kill others have something different about them. Their minds are working much differently than you and I. Personally, I couldn't ever bring myself to kill someone. I can barely hurt someone without feeling incredibly bad, no matter the motive. I simply couldn't let myself do that, just like I couldn't bring myself to steal from a store. It's not me. My mind doesn't work in a way that allows myself to do that.

Murderers don't have a problem with killing others. Their minds work differently than mine. They need help fitting into a society where we don't kill others, because they have a mind that does not fit in with the rules and guidelines of our society. Setting any punishment, much less their own death, is not going to prevent this from happening. The only thing that can prevent it is catching the difference sooner and trying to help the person early on.

But, anyway - let's not turn this into the death penalty thread. :P