Great poem written by a Marine commemorating Tookie’s execution:

Twas the night before Christmas and all through San Quentin,
the crips were protesting, and liberals were ventin’.

The cyanide hung by the chamber wth care, in hopes that the reaper soon would be there.

The inmates were nestled all snug in their bed ;
except for Old Tookie, who soon would be dead.

And me with my beer mug, dressed warm in my flannell, had curled up to watch it, on the Fox News Channel.

I set up my TIVO to record the news station, and thoroughly loved the momentous occasion.

It seemed lady justice had gotten her way, and that there would be one less savage today.

When outside the jail there arose such a clatter, the cameras had turned to see what was the matter.

When what to my civilized eyes did appear, but a lineup of actors, all liberal, half queer.

The misguided freaks drew some curious looks, as they proclaimed his innocence; clutching his books.

The tears then flew out from Sarandon’s eyes, as she nominated him again for the Nobel Peace Prize.

The actors were tethered to an ACLU sleigh, all towing the line of the urban decay.

On Asner, on Penn, on liberal cop-haters,
On Sharpton, on Jesse and other race-baiters.

Then at 3:01 all curled up like a beetle, Tookie cried like a bitch as they gave him the needle.

When up from the actors there arose such a cry, they had failed in their mission, and Tookie DID DIE !!

I heard Bill O’Reilly say, as I turned out my light, Merry Christmas to all … there was justice tonight !!

Nice move by Schwarzenegger today calling for his hometown to remove all reference to him in all advertisements since they no longer want his name on their stadium:

SACRAMENTO – Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday told officials in his hometown in Austria to remove his name from a sports stadium and stop using his name to promote the city.

The governor’s request came after politicians in Graz began a petition drive to rename the stadium, reacting to Schwarzenegger’s decision last week to deny clemency to condemned inmate Stanley Tookie Williams.

Opposition to the death penalty is strong in Austria.

In a letter that began “Dear Mister Mayor,” Schwarzenegger said he decided to spare the Graz city council “further concern” should he be forced to make other clemency decisions while serving as California’s governor.

He faces another such decision regarding a 75-year-old inmate scheduled to be executed Jan. 17.
“In all likelihood, during my term as governor, I will have to make similar and equally difficult decisions,” Schwarzenegger said in the letter. “In order to spare the responsible politicians of the city of Graz further concern, I withdraw from them as of this day the right to use my name in association with the Liebenauer Stadium.”

The stadium had been renamed for the former Hollywood star in 1997. He said he wanted the lettering removed by year’s end.

Schwarzenegger initially declined to respond to the political backlash after he denied clemency for Williams, the co-founder of the Crips gang who was convicted of four 1979 murders. Williams was executed shortly after midnight Dec. 13.

The Graz city council was expected to take up the matter on Jan. 19. The proposal to rename the stadium had support from the Greens party and the Social Democrats, giving it majority backing.

Schwarzenegger spokeswoman Margita Thompson said the letter was faxed to Graz city hall on Monday.
In it, Schwarzenegger also said he would no longer permit the use of his name “to advertise or promote the city of Graz in any way” and would return the city’s “ring of honor.”

The ring was given to him in a ceremony in Graz in 1999. At the time, Schwarzenegger said he considered it “a token of sincere friendship between my hometown and me.

“Since, however, the official Graz appears to no longer accept me as one of their own, this ring has lost its meaning and value to me. It is already in the mail,” the governor wrote.

The letter notes that city officials will receive a follow-up letter from Schwarzenegger’s attorney.

Despite the dispute with Graz officials, Schwarzenegger said he “will remain with all my heart a Grazer, a Steierer and an Austrian.”

Steier is the state that includes Graz.

Gotta say, I’m impressed. First Bush goes on the offensive recently and now Arnold.

John Leo writes today about the ignorant excess of the “save tookie” campaign:

“Tookie” Williams, put to death by lethal injection last week in California, was a “legend” who underwent “a meaningful martyrdom that sent a lasting message to the world,” according to old-time leftist Tom Hayden, formerly Mr. Jane Fonda.

“Meaningful martyrdom”? What can Hayden be talking about? Martyrs die for a cause. Williams died for executing four unarmed people during two 1979 robberies, shooting a woman in the face, and laughing uncontrollably at the gurgling sounds a male victim made as he died in agony.

Opposing the death penalty, of course, means speaking out even for people like Williams. Still, the campaign for him has been wretched excess. His book editor and friend Barbara Becnel compared him to Rosa Parks. She plans a massive funeral as well as a memorial to him in South Africa. Several people nominated him for a Nobel Peace Prize (anybody can nominate anybody, by the way).

Because California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger denied clemency, Austrians took his name off the Arnold Schwarzenegger stadium near Graz, his hometown. A Christian political group suggested the stadium be named for Williams.

In the United States, all the usual suspects have been whipping up support and sympathy for Williams, including Jesse Jackson, Joan Baez, Susan Sarandon and Snoop Dogg.

So much attention to the murderer, almost none for those he killed. So let’s remember them here: Albert Owens, a veteran and father of two young girls, shot at a 7-Eleven; and three members of an Asian-American family who ran the Brookhaven Motel: Yen-I Yang, Tsai-Shai Yang and Yee-Chen Lin.

In a rare bit of commentary, William John Hagan of Canada Free Press wrote: “The mainstream media [have] ignored the realities of the Williams case in order to promote an anti-death-penalty agenda. To present this mass murderer as a martyr is an insult to victims everywhere.”

Hayden said Williams was “railroaded,” another fantasy. In the Owens killing, two accomplices said he did the shooting. In the motel case, Williams was picked up 10 minutes after the shooting of the three members of the Yang family. Shotgun shells at the motel were traced to a shotgun William purchased in 1974. Williams was living with a couple who testified that he told them details of the three murders that only the killer would know. They gave police the shotgun and said Williams kept it under his bed.

One man said Williams had bragged about killing three people who lived on Vermont Street, the location of the motel. The witness later said his testimony was coerced, but a three-judge panel on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected that claim.

A fellow inmate at Los Angeles County Jail testified that Williams drew up an elaborate escape plan, which involved blowing up a van carrying prisoners from jail to court and killing guards and inmates. Handwritten notes by Williams, which featured his habit of using stars to dot his I’s, corroborated the story of the plan. The fellow inmate also testified that Williams had admitted the motel murders.

Williams has been riding the death-row celebrity train for some time. Jamie Foxx made a TV movie about him, “Redemption,” referring to his decision to write children’s books warning against the gang life. But the death-row killer who writes high-minded books to promote clemency is not a new phenomenon. In his column, Hagan discusses Williams’ checkered career in prison, including two instances of throwing chemicals in the eyes of guards.

In denying clemency, Schwarzenegger pointed out that Williams had never apologized for the murders, or even admitted committing them. A farewell message from Williams contained the lyrics of “Strange Fruit,” an anti-lynching song. So the unapologetic killer apparently had no clue about how he reached death row.

The media keep converting killers into celebrities deserving of our sympathy. Gary Gilmore, a Utah murderer, was the subject of an enormous book by Norman Mailer, and the ACLU furiously pursued his cause even after Gilmore said he wanted to die. Mailer turned the killer Jack Henry Abbott into a radical-chic celeb and a sought-after Manhattan dinner guest once Mailer and other prominent folk helped get him paroled. He grew suddenly less popular when he killed again, knifing a waiter to death.

Mumia Abu-Jamal, the convicted cop-killer, is a big name on the left, enlisted to speak on National Public Radio (at least until the protests got too loud) and invited to give major talks, including commencement addresses at two colleges. Now add Williams to the list: the Rosa Parks and Nobel candidate of unrepentant killers.

If you think about it, didn’t John Wayne Gacy dress up as a clown and entertain young sick kids? Would you then say he did a whole lot for kids then? Should his sentence have been reduced because of this? Did you hear anyone coming to his defense and nominating him for a nobel prize?

The whole complete package sold to us from Tookie’s cell is hogwash. All I know is that Tookie’s dead, gonna stay dead, and didn’t get dead soon enough.

I think my favorite line is the fact that a Christian group is calling for the stadium in Austria to be renamed after Tookie once they tear down Schwarzenegger’s name. If they’re going to be naming stadiums after killers shouldn’t they go after the best one’s? Adolf Hitler killed many more then Tookie, wouldn’t he be a better candidate? Pol Pot? Stalin?

The whole complete package sold to us from Tookie’s cell is hogwash. All I know is that Tookie’s dead, gonna stay dead, and didn’t get dead soon enough.

UPDATE BELOW

There will be a viewing of Tookie today a few miles outside of the area I work. They have put us on tactical alert from 12pm until midnight, meaning they want us out in the field with our riot gear. We shall see.

LOS ANGELES – There will be a public viewing of Stanley Tookie Williams on Monday, December 19, 2005 from 3 p.m. until 9 p.m. at the House of Winston Mortuary located at 9501 South Vermont Avenue in Los Angeles.

The memorial service for peacemaker killer Stanley Tookie Williams will take place Tuesday, December 20, 2005 at 12 noon. The service will take place at Bethel A.M.E. located at 7900 South Western Avenue in Los Angeles. The service will be open to the public, but seating is limited. Overflow viewing will take place outside of the church on jumbotron screens.

Among the participants will be Reverend Jesse Jackson Sr., Bruce Gordon of the NAACP, the Honorable (sic) Minister Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam, recording artist Snoop Dogg, human rights advocate Bianca Jagger, and Williams’ long time advocate and friend Barbara Becnel.

Check out that list of participants. What a bunch huh?

I can guarantee you there will be Crips in attendence, most of them can be picked out by the color of the clothes they will be wearing. They wear blue while Bloods wear red.

UPDATE

Hundreds of people converged Monday on the South Los Angeles neighborhood where Stanley Tookie Williams co-founded the Crips to say goodbye to a “homeboy” executed last week over the objections of supporters who said he had turned his life around.

Williams, clad in a gray suit, lay in an open coffin at the House of Winston Mortuary as people quietly filed by with their heads bowed.

“Mostly everyone is out here because of his reputation,” said Robert Collins, 27, who said he was a former Crips gang member. “Everyone knew Tookie was no angel. Everyone’s just paying their respects to him.”

A line of 200 stretched out the door shortly after the six-hour viewing began in mid-afternoon. More than an hour later, the line had dissipated but people were still streaming through.

Williams, whose execution was carried out over the protests of supporters who included celebrities and civil rights activists, spent his last years on California’s Death Row renouncing gang violence and writing several children’s books warning of the dangers of gangs.

See Love, a teacher with the Los Angeles Unified School District, said she had seen firsthand the way Williams’ book “Life in Prison” had changed students’ lives.

“Tookie’s words were able to do what no judge or probation officer was able to do,” said Love, 35. “I hope Stanley’s spirit continues to live in the name of peace.”

Williams, 51, was executed last Tuesday for the murders of four people during a pair of 1979 robberies. Although he had renounced his past as co-founder of the deadly Crips, he maintained to his death that he did not commit the killings.

A crowd lingering outside the mortuary carried signs and handed out flyers proclaiming his innocence.

Lori Tompkins, 48, of Los Angeles, said she came “to say goodbye to our homeboy and also give support to his family.”

“We feel he was innocent and wrongly killed,” she added.

The viewing was to be followed by a funeral Tuesday in Los Angeles. Organizers said those expected to attend included the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan and hip-hop artist Snoop Dogg.

“Everyone knew Tookie was no angel”, one of the biggest understatements of the year.

Well isn’t this special:

WINNIE Madikizela-Mandela has offered to help fulfil the final wish of executed former Los Angeles gang leader Stanley “Tookie” Williams and hold his burial in South Africa.

A spokesman for the flamboyant former wife of Nelson Mandela told the Afrikaans daily newspaper Beeld that Madikizela-Mandela will “honour her promise to see that Williams is buried in South Africa.”

Williams, who was found guilty of four killings but became an anti-violence crusader on death row and an author of several books, was executed in California yesterday by lethal injection.

Quoting Williams’s former wife Bonny Williams-Taylor, the newspaper said it was the former gang leader’s wish to be buried in South Africa.

He met Ms Madikizela-Mandela in 1996 and was “very impressed” with her, Ms Williams-Taylor said.

“She had huge influence on his life and it was his wish to be buried there (in South Africa).”

From one murderer to another Winnie? Gotta stick together.

I guess the only good thing about this would be the fact his body will no longer be on US soil. He contaminated our soil long enough.

I guess the only good thing about this would be the fact his body will no longer be on US soil. He contaminated our soil long enough.

Man oh man, do I wish I could write like Baldilocks. Here she responds to a commentor who brings up all the old clich?s. The same one’s I have received to my Tookie posts as she has hers. One thing I cannot do is slap the commentor silly as well as she can:

Sometimes it?s of use to respond to one?s more problematic commenters, if only to make a point or ten.

Jeremy, a William and Mary student, writes in my only other Stanley ?Tookie? Williams post:

how come you all seem to be picking on tookie. about his impending execution when no one that has posted anything on this page was not in the court room when his trial took place you didn’t here the evidence. so dont comment about it. As for his impending execution I hope Gov. Arnold gives him clemency because even if tookie did those murders. I believe and so do thousands around the world believe that stanley “tookie” williams has done more good then bad. It is possible that he commited those murders and killed four people. But he has saved thousands check that millions from making those same mistakes that he made and probable has saved many lives in the process. Oh and another thing people talking about killing tookie because he may be a murderer. How about we kill the actual murderers like charles manson and stop protecting him behind laws. Oh yeah he’s white.

from a 19 year old white william and mary student

Frankly, Jeremy, unlike you, I acknowledge that you are free to comment all you want from your dorm room or the library at William and Mary–as is your right—about anything and everything. But frankly, sir, I find your academically and experientially unlearned opinion wanting and, conversely, I am free to tell you why I think so.

(As an aside, were I one of the faculty at William and Mary, I?d give you an ?F? simply for staining that august institution?s reputation by displaying your poor writing skills; it wouldn?t matter what subject it was. Were I one of your parents, I?d demand a refund for your tuition. However, I?m glad that you are only nineteen because you will have time to improve all of the writing-skill deficiencies displayed above.)

As to your research skills, two seconds of Google work took me to the Crime Library, where I found out that Charles Manson had indeed received the death penalty for his infamous Helter Skelter gang murder spree, but the verdict?along with dozens of others?was commuted to life in prison when California abolished the death penalty in 1972. I wonder whether you think that the white residents of California?s death row of the time were the only ones to receive that little get-out-of-Hell-free (for now) card. (The California Death Penalty was reinstated in1977; however all of those who received clemency under the old law retained it, including Charles Manson.)

(Second-person off.)

Of course Jeremy knew nothing about that little historical tidbit because he didn?t care to look for it. To be fair, I actually remember when this happened?long before young Jeremy was born.

Other types of skill deficiencies displayed by this young man are more problematic–his ability to detect BS, for one. The idea that Stanley ?Tookie? Williams might not be guilty has been planted all over the Internet and Jeremy–along with a boatload of others, if my comments section is any indication?have been reeled in to this bogus notion; hooked in the corner of their mouths like hapless fish. So, in order for their position to make some semblance of sense, the fish have to insert their fish-like logic into the mix: ?you weren?t there; you don?t know what *really* happened, so shut up,? forgetting that they weren?t there either and are merely going by the news and propaganda reports from “geniuses” like Bianca Jagger just like the rest of us.

Attention: just because the rumor is being passed all over the Internet that ?Tookie? might be innocent doesn?t mean that it?s TRUE.

Okay, Little Fishies, let?s play a game. Let?s say that ?Tookie? is indeed innocent of the four murders for which he stands to be executed at 12:01 AM PST on Tuesday, December 13, 2005. As the founder of the Crips, one of the most notorious TERRORIST organizations in the world, do you think he murdered anyone other than Albert Owens, Yen-I Yang, Tsai-Shai Yang and Yee-Chen Lin Yang during his reign over the neighborhoods of South Central Los Angeles in the seventies (I?m not buying the ?South Los Angeles? moniker) ?

And all you black, white and other ?upholders? of the black race?like Jeremy proclaims to be in my comment section?if you concede that ?Tookie? might have murdered others, do you think that any of those other people were black? As an aside, did any of you grow up in ?Tookie?s? South Central Los Angeles of the 1970s like Cobb and I did? Do any of you live there like I do right now?

I?m curious about the answers to these questions for two reasons.

Leaving aside those who oppose the death penalty for moral/religious reasons, few of you have seemed motivated to move into my South Central LA neighborhood to see what ?Tookie? and his Crip co-founder Raymond Lee Washington (who?s burning in Hell right now) have wrought for the last thirty-odd years. And I know that you won?t be choosing to live here anytime soon. That?s understandable; however, don?t tell me that we should coddle these TERRORISTS like ?Tookie? and those he created if you don?t have to put up with them. (Okay, you can tell me, but you can expect a barely polite response and that?s if I?m feeling generous.)

There is much more then this and wowza, you need to check it out. I included her discussion about the impact on her neighborhood by the Crips for a reason tho. Some of my regular readers know I patrol this very same area. I see the destruction this gang has done to the area, and I have only been patrolling there for 8 years. There are many good people in these area’s who are being held captive by these criminals. Almost everyday someone is shot, some die, some live. You would think that the victims are other gang members, and while that is the case many times it’s also the case that the scum is just shooting at a race. The Crips or the Bloods will shoot at a Hispanic person. The next day Florencia, B13 or any of the other Hispanic gangs will shoot at a Black person. This is the ongoing cycle of violence that Tookie helped grow. Was there violence before Tookie came along, of course. But he has the distinction of founding a group that has grown larger, and done more to terrorize, then any other gang in recent memory.

While I don’t live in this area, I do work this area. I SEE his legacy with my own eyes everyday. That is why I drank a toast to his victims last night at the announcement of his death. Couldn’t have happened to a better guy.

This will be my second live blog post, my first being the Oklahoma Bomber some months back. Probably not much to blog about except the finale “HE’S DEAD”! comment but hey, better then watching reruns of “Friends”.

1653hrs – Please check out the John & Ken show broadcasting live at San Quentin, lots of funny interviews with the protestors.

1657hrs – Last appeal:

Hours after California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger denied clemency Monday for convicted killer Stanley Tookie Williams, lawyers for the Crips street gang co-founder filed a last-ditch appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court for a stay of execution.

1658hrs – John & Ken are now yelling at Jessie Jackson “what are the names of the victims?” and he doesn’t know. Jessie just said “what does it matter?”

1700hrs – Jesse Jackson just said “I don’t want to deal with that tonight” when asked by John & Ken what the names of the victims are.

1705hrs – Albert Owens

1730hrs – Jesse Jackson’s (the man of peace) bodyguards broke John Ziegler’s microphone when he asked him what the names of the victims are. Guess he doesn’t like that question.

1740hrs – Lawanda Hawkins on CNN: “My son was killed by Crips, no clemency for Williams! where are the protestors for the victims?”

1741hrs – Jesse Jackson is apparently trying to get on the witness list for the execution

1743hrs – How much you wanna bet Tookie will be dragged to his death screaming and crying? It’s all fine while he has been sitting on his ass in a cell but not anymore.

1747hrs – John & Ken just yelled at Mike Farrell and asked what the names of the victims are, when Mike kept walking they yelled are you a fraud like Jesse? These guys are great.

1810hrs – Here is the audio of them yelling at Mike Farrell

1817hrs -

1823hrs – Jesse Jackson just said that there is no evidence Tookie killed the 4 victims.

1828hrs – The Supreme Court has just denied Tookie’s last appeal plus Schwarzenegger has denied his request for a stay…..ITS OVER!

1829hrs – Gonna go eat, be back in a bit.

1922hrs – Listen to this protestor here. She feels Tookie did the crime but shouldn’t die but Scott Peterson should since she doesn’t like him…..huh?

1926hrs – Here is another great one where the protestor states us whites are lynching blacks.

1932hrs – And another one calling the interview violent but hey, that lady getting a shotgun blast to her face wasn’t violent.

1941hrs – A bunch of pro-Tookie supporters are now preventing John Ziegler from interviewing protestors, that’s free speech for the liberal crowd.

1946hrs – Here is a segment where John Ziegler is trying to get away from these “free speech” advocates who prevent him from interviewing the wackjobs.

1953hrs – John Ziegler is now reporting that the one person who was for Tookie being executed was physically pushed away from the protest, they are now screaming at John. Classic example of the liberal idiots.

1956hrs – Oh I love this, they are now chanting “legal lynching is a crime, Ziegler should be doing time”.

2001hrs – Here is the audio which is a perfect example of what happens when liberals & victocrats have no intellectual honesty. When confronted with facts and a valid argument they resort to chanting, yelling, & name calling.

2152hrs – Gonna go watch a movie since I’m off tomorrow, will be back in a few hours for the final countdown.

2346hrs – I’m back. 15 min’s and counting!

2352hrs – I have my shot of tequila ready to toast at 0001hrs to honor the memory the 4 that were killed by Tookie and their families.

2358hrs – A few minutes left until justice is done.

0001hrs – And it’s started!

0012hrs – Live feed here:

0015hrs – Just realized that this is the anniversary of Saddam being pulled out of his hole, how fitting.

0030hrs – Waiting for the announcement of his death.

0038hrs – Still no ETA on his death.

0040hrs – Tookie is now dead, officially announced.

0052hrs – Watching the press conference now. Execution began at 0022hr and was over at 0035hrs. One of the reporters stated Tookie’s supporters raised their fists in a black power salute and then on the way out they yelled “the State of California has just killed a innocent man” at which point one of the family members of Albert Owens began crying. Disgusting act in the death chamber.

0054hrs – Next group of reporters is coming up now.

0104hrs – One of the reporters just stated that it appeared Tookie was trying to intimidate the reporters when he gave a stare at the reporters.

0112hrs – The whole group of reporters just stated that it appeared Tookie was defiant to the bitter end. He was trying to intimidate the room from the beginning.

0122hrs – Some idiot just asked the reporters that because it took 12 minutes to find the vein in the scumbags left arm would that provide any fodder for the opponents to the lethal injection. All the reporters said, “not that we could answer” and then left.

0124hrs – Warden just stated he refused a spiritual advisor.

0130hrs – Here is the complete audio of the after execution interviews with the witnesses.

0133hrs – And with that, I’m going to bed. Justice has been done and my sympathies to the families of those who were killed by this evil man.

I’ve been at work all day and heard about Gov. Schwarzenegger’s decision. Thankfully he came to a good decision. On the way into the station we drove through a few of the projects in the South Central area and no signs of unrest yet….but who knows. Idiots will take any reason to destroy their communities property and to loot:

Here is some of his decision:

Now, his appeals exhausted, Williams seeks mercy in the form of a petition for clemency. He claims that he deserves clemency because he has undergone a personal transformation and is redeemed, and because there were problems with his trial that undermine the fairness of the jury?s verdict.

Williams? case has been thoroughly reviewed in the 24 years since his convictions and death sentence. In addition to his direct appeal to the California Supreme Court, Williams has filed five state habeas corpus petitions, each of which has been rejected. The federal courts have also reviewed his convictions and death sentence. Williams filed a federal habeas corpus petition, and the U.S. District Statement of Decision Request for Clemency by Stanley Williams Court denied it. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals confirmed this decision.

Williams was also given a number of post-trial evidentiary hearings, and he and his lawyers had the opportunity at these hearings to present evidence that was not heard at trial. The jury?s decision has withstood these challenges.

In all, Williams? case has been the subject of at least eight substantive judicial opinions. Prior to the filing of the clemency petition, the state court habeas process was completed on June 21, 1995 when the California Supreme Court denied Williams? fourth state habeas corpus petition. The federal court habeas process was completed on October 11, 2005 when the United States Supreme Court denied Williams? writ of certiorari.

The claim that Williams received an unfair trial was the subject of this extensive litigation in the state and Federal courts. The courts considered the sufficiency of his counsel, the strategic nature of counsel?s decisions during the penalty phase of Williams? trial, the adequacy and reliability of testimony from informants, whether Williams was prejudiced by security measures employed during his trial, whether he was competent to stand trial, whether the prosecutor impermissibly challenged potential jurors on the basis of race, and whether his jury was improperly influenced by Williams? threats made against them. There is no need to rehash or second guess the myriad findings of the courts over 24 years of litigation.

The possible irregularities in Williams? trial have been thoroughly and carefully reviewed by the courts, and there is no reason to disturb the judicial decisions that uphold the jury?s decisions that he is guilty of these four murders and should pay with his life.

The basis of Williams? clemency request is not innocence. Rather, the basis of the request is the “personal redemption Stanley Williams has experienced and the positive impact of the message he sends.? But Williams? claim of innocence remains a key factor to evaluating his claim of personal redemption. It is impossible to separate Williams? claim of innocence from his claim of redemption.

Cumulatively, the evidence demonstrating Williams is guilty of these murders is strong and compelling. It includes: (1) eyewitness testimony of Alfred Coward, who was one of Williams? accomplices in the 7-Eleven shooting; (2) ballistics evidence proving that the shotgun casing found at the scene of the motel murders was fired from Williams? shotgun; (3) testimony from Samuel Coleman that Williams confessed that he had robbed and killed some people on Vermont Street (where the motel was located); (4) testimony from James and Esther Garrett that Williams admitted to them that he committed both sets of murders; and (5) testimony from jailhouse informant George Oglesby that Williams confessed to the motel murders and conspired with Oglesby to escape from county jail. The trial evidence is bolstered by information from Tony Sims, who has admitted to being an accomplice in the 7-Eleven murder. Sims did not testify against Williams at trial, but he was later convicted of murder for his role in Albert Owens? death. During his trial and subsequent parole hearings, Sims has repeatedly stated under oath that Williams was the shooter.

Based on the cumulative weight of the evidence, there is no reason to second guess the jury?s decision of guilt or raise significant doubts or serious reservations about Williams? convictions and death sentence. He murdered Albert Owens and Yen-I Yang, Yee-Chen Lin and Tsai-Shai Lin in cold blood in two separate incidents that were just weeks apart.

But Williams claims that he is particularly deserving of clemency because he has reformed and been redeemed for his violent past. Williams? claim of redemption triggers an inquiry into his atonement for all his transgressions. Williams protests that he has no reason to apologize for these murders because he did not commit them. But he is guilty and a close look at Williams? post-arrest and postconviction conduct tells a story that is different from redemption.

After Williams was arrested for these crimes, and while he was awaiting trial, he conspired to escape from custody by blowing up a jail transportation bus and killing the deputies guarding the bus. There are detailed escape plans in Williams? own handwriting. Williams never executed this plan, but his co-conspirator implicated Williams in the scheme. The fact that Williams conspired to murder several others to effectuate his escape from jail while awaiting his murder trial is consistent with guilt, not innocence. And the timing of the motel murders?less than two weeks after the murder of Albert Owens?shows a callous disregard for human life.

Williams has written books that instruct readers to avoid the gang lifestyle and to stay out of prison.5 In 1996, a Tookie Speaks Out Against Gang Violence children?s book series was published. In 1998, ?Life in Prison? was published. In 2004, Williams published a memoir entitled ?Blue Rage, Black Redemption.? He has also recently (since 1995) tried to preach a message of gang avoidance and peacemaking, including a protocol for street peace to be used by opposing gangs.

It is hard to assess the effect of such efforts in concrete terms, but the continued pervasiveness of gang violence leads one to question the efficacy of Williams? message. Williams co-founded the Crips, a notorious street gang that has contributed and continues to contribute to predatory and exploitative violence. The dedication of Williams? book ?Life in Prison? casts significant doubt on his personal redemption. This book was published in 1998, several years after Williams? claimed redemptive experience. Specifically, the book is dedicated to ?Nelson Mandela, Angela Davis, Malcolm X, Assata Shakur, Geronimo Ji Jaga Pratt, Ramona Africa, John Africa, Leonard Peltier, Dhoruba Al-Mujahid, George Jackson, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and the countless other men, women, and youths who have to endure the hellish oppression of living behind bars.? The mix of individuals on this list is curious. Most have violent pasts and some have been convicted of committing heinous murders, including the killing of law enforcement. But the inclusion of George Jackson on this list defies reason and is a significant indicator that Williams is not reformed and that he still sees violence and lawlessness as a legitimate means to address societal problems.

George Jackson was a militant activist and prison inmate who founded the violent Black Guerilla Family prison gang. Jackson was charged with the murder of a San Quentin correctional officer. In 1970, when Jackson was out to court in Marin County on the murder case, his brother stormed the courtroom with a machine gun, and along with Jackson and two other inmates, took a judge, the prosecutor and three others hostage in an escape attempt. Shooting broke out. The prosecutor was paralyzed from a police bullet, and the judge was killed by a close-range blast to his head when the shotgun taped to his throat was fired by one of Jackson?s accomplices. Jackson?s brother was also killed. Then, three days before trial was to begin in the correctional officer murder case, Jackson was gunned down in the upper yard at San Quentin Prison in another foiled escape attempt on a day of unparalleled violence in the prison that left three officers and three inmates dead in an earlier riot that reports indicate also involved Jackson.

There is also little mention or atonement in his writings and his plea for clemency of the countless murders committed by the Crips following the lifestyle Williams once espoused. The senseless killing that has ruined many families, particularly in African-American communities, in the name of the Crips and gang warfare is a tragedy of our modern culture. One would expect more explicit and direct reference to this byproduct of his former lifestyle in Williams? writings and apology for this tragedy, but it exists only through innuendo and inference. Is Williams? redemption complete and sincere, or is it just a hollow promise?

Stanley Williams insists he is innocent, and that he will not and should not apologize or otherwise atone for the murders of the four victims in this case. Without an apology and atonement for these senseless and brutal killings there can be no redemption. In this case, the one thing that would be the clearest indication of complete remorse and full redemption is the one thing Williams will not do.

Clemency decisions are always difficult, and this one is no exception. After reviewing and weighing the showing Williams has made in support of his clemency request, there is nothing that compels me to nullify the jury?s decision of guilt and sentence and the many court decisions during the last 24 years upholding the jury?s decision with a grant of clemency.

Therefore, based on the totality of circumstances in this case, Williams? request for clemency is denied.

A well written and well thought out decision.

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Good news that the California Supreme Court has denied Tookie’s last appeal:

The California Supreme Court late Sunday refused to grant a stay of execution for Williams, who has publicly becomg an outspoken critic of gang violence during the last 24 years in prison. Last-ditch federal appeals are also in the works.

[...]The state Supreme Court ruled 6-0 against staying his execution, saying Williams’ last-minute appeal lacked merit and was untimely. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Brault had implored the justices early Sunday to dismiss the petition, writing that it “is without merit and is manifestly designed for delay.”

[...]Prosecutors and family members of Williams’ victims have urged the governor to deny the request, in part because Williams continues to deny guilt in the slayings. No clemency request has been granted in California since 1967, when Ronald Reagan spared a mentally ill killer.

Gotta love this:

A lawyer for convicted murderer Stanley Tookie Williams asked the state Supreme Court to stay his execution, saying the Crips gang co-founder should have been allowed to argue that someone else killed one of his four alleged victims.

Attorney Verna Wefald filed a petition Saturday challenging the validity of the four convictions and death sentences given in 1981 to Williams, who is scheduled to die Tuesday at San Quentin State Prison. She also filed an emergency request seeking a stay, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Williams’ lawyers also have asked Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to grant clemency, saying Williams has redeemed himself as shown by his books urging children not to join gangs. Schwarzenegger’s office said Saturday the governor had not made a decision.

Williams was convicted of killing a man during a robbery in February 1979 and of murdering a couple and their daughter at a South Los Angeles motel in March 1979.

[...]From behind bars, Williams has been nominated five times for a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to quell gang violence and four times for a Nobel Prize in literature.

Yes, we know how difficult it is to be nominated for a Nobel Prize:

In an effort to mock the Nobel Peace Prize nominations, William Wulf Handel, morning host on KFI 640 in Los Angeles, convinced a S. California congressman to nominate him for a Nobel Peace Price. The congressman did it with the promise that his name would never be revealed. He was apparently embarrassed, but went along with the prank.

Handel read the letter on the air (the link above) and just appeared on the John and Ken show to discuss it.

Handel is pulling the stunt because of the Nobel Peace Prize nominations of murdering scum Stanley “Tookie” Williams, set for letal injection at San Quentin on Dec. 13. Tookie brutally murdered four people and is still alive well over two decades later.

Williams is the darling of the leftist Hollywood crowd, including Mike Farrell and Snoop Dogg. They don’t want him to die. He co-authored a few children’s books and has supposedly spoken out about gang violence. The psychopath has actually convinced some fools that he has redeemed himself. That redemption, of course, does not include admitting what he did or turning in other murderers.

[...]The money from the sale of his books is used to support at-risk youth programs and to continue his appeals, his lawyers said.

Yes, all the money from his books sold, all 330 of them, will go along way to supporting those programs. They can probably buy lunch for 3 people with the profits.

Wefald’s petition argues that prosecutors failed to disclose at trial that witness Alfred Coward was not a U.S. citizen and had a violent criminal history, depriving Williams of the opportunity to argue Coward was the killer in the February 1979 robbery.

So he should be granted clemency because they feel ONE of the murder’s might have been by someone else? Because Alfred Coward had a criminal record that should grant him another trial? Who are they trying to kid. Alfred Coward was a FRIEND of Stanley Williams. He wasn’t a bystander just walking by, he was there during the commission of the crime. Of course many of the witnesses had criminal records, because Tookie did not allow any good witnesses to survive. The only one’s left alive were his cohorts. This doesn’t take brain science people.

The Defense had plenty of opportunities to bring up Alfred’s past during the trial at his MANY appeals, but if this is all they got, buh bye Tookie. Pathetic.

For those on the left who may stumble across my site and pray for Tookie to be spared, here is one of his victims:

Tookie has lived 25 years longer then the above pictured young man. Tookie has lived to see his offspring murder on their own while Albert was denied his opportunity to watch his kids grown up.

He denied the Yang family their lives but wants us to feel sorry for him. Lethal injection is too good for this scum, bring back the chair!

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The Capture Of Tookie
Can You Feel The Noose Yet Tookie?
Time To Die Tookie
Burn Tookie Burn
Let Tookie Die
Die Tookie Die
Fry Tookie Fry
If Tookie Had Been White
Tookie Must Die
Buh Bye Tookie
Crips Founder Loses Again