Stanley “Tookie” Williams Watch: Schwarzenegger to Hold Private Clemency Hearing
Stanley ‘Tookie’ Williams. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will hold a hearing on clemency for the former gang member turned Nobel Peace prize nominee who now faces execution, a spokeswoman has revealed.
Welcome all Michelle Malkin readers.
The Los Angeles Times and Dog Trainer has Gov. to Consider Clemency for Killer
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will hold a private hearing at his Sacramento office Dec. 8 to consider whether to grant clemency to convicted murderer Stanley Tookie Williams, co-founder of the Crips street gang.
Margita Thompson, the governor’s press secretary, said Schwarzenegger’s decision to hold the private meeting with lawyers representing Williams and the families of his victims did not indicate which way he was leaning on whether to commute Williams’ sentence from death to life in prison without possibility of parole.
“The governor reviewed the material in the case this week,” Thompson said late Friday. “He decided the best route is a private clemency hearing, so he can hear directly from counsel.”
What more does Schwarzeneger need to consider?
Another hearing – and how many years has it been?…….over 24 years!
Read the 57 page brief the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office has prepared here.
Schwarzenegger doesn’t need the “show” of a public or private hearing.
Make the decision, Governor.
You know what is at stake……..YOUR political future.
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Cobb has a piece on Tookie’s son.
For example in 1994 my office prosecuted Stanley 46 Williams’ son, Stanley “Little Tookie†William, Jr., a “Neighborhood Crip†for shooting a twenty year old girl to death in an alley off of Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood in a gang retaliation shooting. “Little Tookie†was convicted by a jury of murder.
Now this revelation is just a real stunning gem. I couldn’t invent it. Here’s a guy who is supposed to be spared because he writes children’s books, but his own son is a convicted murderer.
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redc1c4
send your cards and letters to:
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
Office of Constituent Affairs
State Capitol Building
Sacramento, CA
95814
his office told me the decision deadline was 14DEC05, so get writting.
redc1c4,
who’d cheerfully draw up and adminster the meds hisownself
Joe
It’s a joke that a bunch of Hollywood LIBS and THUGS can even get the Governor to have this meeting with that piece of crap murder. He made his bed, now it’s time to lie in it. The 13th of Dec can’t come soon enough!
cpp
In the lyrics of Ice Cube – “Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time”
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Jennifer
Stan Tookie Williams has accomplished a lot since being in prison… the books, the movie deals, etc. What else did he have to do in there? He did these things for his own means, the attention, the special privaleges and meeting movie stars among them.
He still hasn’t admitted to what he did, he has helped no authority with information about gangs or other crimes. He says that would be snitching and his new life is about doing good, not hurting others. What a load of dung.
It’s time for Tookie to say goodbye. He had time in life to make his mark and say his farewells, to provide for his family. The people he hurt did not have that luxery.
It’s time for Tookie to die!
P.S. Jamie Foxx start helping people who deserve it, you stupid racist jerk.
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Ron Rook
Stan “Tookie” Williams has done what he had a chance to do in life, and all it’s caused is a lot of pain and suffering. And who the hell cares about Snoop Dog, Jesse Jackson or Mike Farrell or even Bianca Jager. These people are idiots who make too much money and have too much time on their hands. Make the right decision Governor! As for the Tookie, say goodnight Gracie!!
Jonathan T. Dickens
I’m not going to criticize, point the finger, or name blame anyone for trying to save this man’s life. Some people are right about if you do the crime then you do the time but who are we to judge his situation. There’s alot of people in this world that has done more than what this man has done and now all you can do is point the finger at these celeb’s about there means to save Stanley’s life. Now let me make one thing clear I’m not a gang banger, member, associate, or affiliated with nothing of that nature. What we need to do is pray for the victims families & Stanley and let the Lord above to make that decision for all of us, because he does the final decision making ya dig. We are all still his children in this world let’s learn to love instead of hate. Peace to all
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Ruben Sostre Jr
man leave the guy alone there is no edvidence so leave him alone
MJ
We call ourselves a Christian Nation will Christian Values. Yet, we are some of the most racist and blood thirtiest people in the world. Get Real!!! If there is a God and Heaven you can bet you won’t see many of you people there. If you do get there you’ll think you’re in the wrong place because when you find out your maker is Black and heaven if filled with all types of people you will say to God “send me to hell where all my kin folk and friends are.
MJ response
Good one MJ, that makes no sense at all. All Christians will be proud of your genius perspective. Racism is not at play here. I would be really interested in knowing how you found out what color God is…
“Tookie” has no debt to society. His debt is to those he damaged. The 4 he murdered, and their family. The people unjustly killed cannot be compensated for their lives, and their family cannot be compensated for their loss. The death penalty is the closest we can come to an equitable punishment. True judgement will come after he is executed.
A. Reed
“On Sunday November 13, one week before the “Save Tookie” rally at San Quentin, fourteen-year old William Cox and a friend were attending a neighborhood carnival when they were gunned down by a man who mistook them for rival gang members. Cox, who was not in a gang, was struck in the chest and died at the scene. That is the evil wrought by Stanley Williams!” as the collum reads from Malkin’s webblog, the continuing violence that is carried on by the legacy of Mr. Williams’ begginings will be felt by our nation for many many years. Yes the man has done great things to open his own eyes to his wrongful ways,maybe even helped a few stay away from the life,, but for far to many dead already and so many that will die his damage can not be undone. For these crimes he was actually convicted of ,surely I hope , the nation does not believe these to be his only crimes.
Think of it as a genocide of his own people, Hitler may not have actually pulled the switch at the concentration camps but he ordered them switched. It will take more than a few books to undo hwat has been started by Mr. Williams and his friends. It will take generations of good leaders to turn around what was started .
CHERYL
TOOKIE MUST DIE, FOR THE CRIME HE HAS DONE, HE HAD NO MERCY ON THE LIVES HE TOOK SO WHY SHOULD WE GIVE HIM MERCY ON HIS LIFE,
ALL PEOPLE LOOKING AT DEATH ROE, CHANGE THERE LIVES THEY DONT WANT TO DIE, HE HAS NOT CHANGED BELEIVE ME!,
AND HE SHOULD DRAW UP HIS OWN INJECTION AND GIVE IT TO HIMSELF I AGREE,
AND WHY WASTRE TAX PAYERS MONEY TO SUPPORT HIS BUT IN PRISON, WASING TIME AND SPACE,
HE MUST DIE
CHERYL
Rose
THE US JUSTICE SYSTEM HAS FAILED ME IF STANLEY’S LIFE IS TAKEN. REMEMBER WHAT THIS WAS ABOUT REHABILATATION. HE HAS REHABILATATED AND THE WAY THAT THE GOVERNMENT IS GOING TO PROVE IT IS KILL HIM!!! WHO WHAT AN EXAMPLE!!!
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Snapper
The simple fact that there are (now) feared riots if Stanley’s sentence is carried out, shows that he has had no impact on the reduction of violence. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17528777-38198,00.html
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THE TOOKIE FILES
By Michelle Malkin · November 26, 2005 03:33 PM
Convicted murderer Stanley “Tookie” Williams, the co-founder of the violent Crips gang who is on Death Row in California, is Hollyweird’s current cause celebre. He is scheduled to be executed on Dec. 13 after 24 years of legal wrangling. The San Francisco Chronicle reports today that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has decided to hold a clemency hearing Dec. 8.
Among the Save Tookie brigades: Snoop Dogg, Bianca Jagger, Jesse Jackson, Margaret Cho, Mike Farrell, Jason Alexander, Laurence Fishburne, Danny Glover, Anjelica Huston, Bonnie Raitt, Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, and Noah Wyle.
I wrote about Williams’ bleeding-heart worshipers back in 2000, when he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize:
San Quentin prison officials report that juvenile delinquents idolize Williams. His propaganda has been endorsed by the Congressional Black Caucus. As part of an ongoing public relations campaign to soften his image while he ties up the courts with specious legal appeals, Williams has been profiled sympathetically by People magazine, Time, the Los Angeles Times, and the ethnic press. He even appeared on a TV special introduced by President Clinton. Barbara Becnel, a crusading journalist who “edits” Williams’ writings, once gushed that if the death-row inmate had “been raised in Brentwood instead of South Central, he’d be head of the state Democratic party.”
Williams’ groupies would have us believe that their Nobel Peace Prize nominee is a helpless victim of his environment, addled by low self-esteem, forced to turn to violence by racist oppressors, and now apologetic “for the atrocities which I and others committed against our race through gang violence.” Spare us the sob story. Here are the cold-blooded facts missing from Williams’ Nobel Peace Prize application:
Williams was convicted of murdering four innocent bystanders with a sawed-off shotgun in 1979. There was nothing peaceful or compassionate about the way [Albert Owens], Thsai-Shai Yang, Yen-I Yang and Yee Chen Lin died. Owen[s] was a white teen-age clerk at a 7-11 convenience store, shot twice in the back of the head — execution-style — as he lay unarmed on the floor during a hold-up. A witness testified that Williams mocked the gurgling sounds Owen[s] made as he lay dying. “You should have heard the way he sounded when I shot him,” the witness quoted Williams.
The Yangs were Taiwanese immigrants who, along with their daughter Yee Chen Lin, were gunned down during a motel robbery two weeks after Owen[s] died. Half of the daughter’s face was blown off by the shotgun blasts, former L.A. County Deputy District Attorney Robert Martin told me in an interview this week. Williams called them “Buddhaheads,” Martin recounted, and robbed them of petty cash.
Williams has yet to apologize to the victims’ families. When the trial ended, Martin told me, Williams muttered to the prosecution team, “I’ll get every one of you m—–f—–s.”
Spoken like a Nobel laureate.
Tookie Williams was sentenced to die for these brutal crimes in 1981. But at the end of this year, he will have celebrated 19 more Thanksgivings, 19 more Christmases, and 19 more birthdays. That’s 6,935 days more than [Albert Owens], Thsai-Shai Yang, Yen-I Yang and Yee Chen Lin were allowed to enjoy on this earth…
Wayne Owens, Albert’s brother, speaks out here.
Rebecca Owens, Albert’s daughter, weighs in here.
Lora Owens, Albert’s stepmother, writes:
My name is Lora Owens. I am the stepmother of Albert Lewis Owens. My husband, Albert’s father, has died so I also speak for him since we discussed this letter frequently over the years. I am writing you concerning clemency for Stanley “Tookie” Williams who murdered Albert in 1979 by shooting him twice in the back. Within seconds, though Albert pleaded for his life, Williams chose to become the judge, jury and executioner of Albert, then laughed as he lay dying. In 1981, Williams was tried, convicted and sentenced to death for the murders he committed in cold blood. Now the many, many years of appeals have also been denied and the facts remain steadfast and the verdict remains firm.
Now that the appeals have been denied, Williams has decided on a new tactic. A female friend has entered his life who happens to be a journalist who wants to write children’s books against gangs. Since the defense of brain damage in his appeals did not gain him anything, Williams decided to become an articulate author denouncing gang activity. He doesn’t assist the authorities in stopping gang activity by “debriefing” however, but concentrates on teaching primary school age children the “walk and talk” of gang life. This he claims will deter them from joining a gang.
The Nobel Peace Prize nominations, from the first to the last, have been made by activists who see an opportunity to further their personal cause.The first was quoted to have made the nomination to “raise the awareness of the death penalty to a higher degree”. Totally nothing to do with Williams and whether he deserved the recognition but for a political agenda.
This has been true of each nomination since.
They have quoted that it doesn’t matter what he has done in the past but what he is doing now.
I contend that he is not doing anything now to warrant any type of award and it definitely does matter what he has done in the past. It would matter to anyone whose child is dying in a pool of blood because Williams had the loaded gun and chose to shoot- not in self defense-but shot innocent, unarmed victims simply bcause he could.
John and Ken of KFI-AM talk radio in Los Angeles are following the latest twists and turns.
Flap’s Blog is keeping a Tookie Watch. RedState on the impending death of Tookie Williams.
Debra J. Saunders, who has followed the case for years, debunks the Tookie sympathizers’ mythology:
The whole “redemption” line is a joke. As Williams’ former prosecutor Robert Martin once told me, redemption requires an admission of guilt, facing up to what you did and expressing remorse. Williams has done none of the above, yet newspaper editorial pages (including The Chronicle’s) and various do-gooders (including some Ninth U.S. Court of Appeals judges) have been pushing for the governor to grant Tookie clemency.
That would turn the whole concept of clemency on its ear.
Let me stipulate: While I support the death penalty, I can respect those who oppose it. But I can’t respect those who lionize the most violent thugs as if they are prize sages. My advice to the anti-execution crowd — and I have no doubt it will be ignored — is to find some poor schlub who killed in a panic and doesn’t belong on death row, and seek clemency for that person.
Don’t put a cold-blooded killer on a pedestal. Don’t denounce a government killing as barbaric while you laud a cold-blooded thug. And don’t ask for clemency for a killer who won’t fess up to his crimes.
Williams’ co-author, Barbara Becnel, told the Los Angeles Times, “What Stan presents is hope that they, too, can change. He is worth far more to society alive than dead.”
Wrong. He is worth more to society dead. The message from the Tookie-philes is that you can kill innocent people and be a star. An execution says you can kill innocent people and pay the price.
Which message will Gov. Schwarzenegger send?
Stay tuned.
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Update: Send a message to the Tookie worshipers. Nominate Patterico for a Nobel Peace Prize!
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Cara
Tookie Williams is a convicted murder. Being rehabilitated is what he is supposed to do in prison. So what if he writes childrens books. If he truly is religous now and has god in his life , then he should be happy to finally meet god. Unless of course he knows he is even guiltier then everyone thinks he is , and now he’s afraid to meet god because its going to be the devil instead.
Anti TookieMan
Die like a man you scumbag
lr
I am a counselor at an elementary school in Georgia. I can’t even begin to tell you how many times a scenario like this has happened in my school:
“Why are you in the office?”
“I got in trouble.”
“What happened?”
“I kicked someone.”
“Oh–I see.”
“No, but I said I was sorry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
“Well, you know, when we do something wrong, we have to deal with the consequences. I am glad you said you were sorry, but that doesn’t take away what happened, and now the consequence is that you’re in the principal’s office.”
“But I said I was sorry!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
These children seem to truly not understand that “sorry” doesn’t fix everything. Sometimes it seems they know they can do whatever they want because all they have to do is say sorry afterwards.
I’m not so sure I want to reinforce that message with the founder of the Crips being granted clemency.
name
NO INJECTION HANG THAT BITCH
jb
This execution needs to happen, all his VICTIMS have been waiting over 24 years, that is preposterous. If you are convicted, and sentenced to death, there should not be endless appeals, for years on end. Exexutions should be carried out within no more than 2 years to give a fair chance at appeals. SMOKE HIM LIKE HE SMOKED AND WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATHS OF POSSIBLY THOUSANDS!
cj
For you that don’t know, WE ARE IN TROUBLE. For the teacher in Georgia please tell me what school you are at so I can make sure my kids don’t attend. We have to “Bridge the Gap” in America or else! We can’t fight an evil sprit with an evil sprit. For the teacher this is why they say I’m sorry over and over again because of people like yourself with the wrong attitude to teach OUR FUTURE! For the family hurt by Tookie Williams, you can’t look to get revenge against Mr. Williams and if you believe there is a God, THOU SALT NOT KILL! When the U.S. kills they are just as guilty as Tookie. If they kill Tookie Williams and you live in L.A. or anywhere near these cell of people, please be prepared for another terrible event in 2005. We are at war not only abroad but also here at home. We have to learn how to be better friends and neighbors or we will continue to become the third world power. We also need not only check the resume of such teachers as above but do a community check on there character as well. Come on people whatever the governor does, that’s up to him but we have to learn how to get alone and work together for the good of our country. CRIPS, BLOODS, GANGSTERS, MOBS,KKK,SKINHEADS, all are beneath us! We should not hold them accountable, we should hold ourselves accountable for not doing more for those who have chosen that way of life. Most of it starts with education. They started out at a school like the one in Georgia. Get to know your teachers and what they are teaching your kids. Pray that they are BEING TAUGHT the right way so they dont have to say SORRY over and over again. Pray they are showing many in the home how to be better, especially if the home is under educated. “WE HAVE TO “BRIDGE THE GAP”, IN OUR SOCIETY! Let’s begin now, whether they execute Tookie Williams or not! Also, let’s look at the facts and not the RACE! If you don’t know the facts, find out before you voice your hate! I don’t know the facts but I do know we are a country that can fight a war abroad together and be at RACE at home! WE ARE IN TROUBLE!
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anonymous
Sinner should forgive other sinner……..he should be punished yet gets clemency for his redemption
Bill
I would like the american public to know how much money this murderer has made from his books and movie deals. Then let them know how much of that money was spent on trying to prevent gang violence and abolish the gangs. I bet you will find that he is full of crap and is not remorseful at all. If he were he would admit that he killed four innocent people. Instead he continues to deny what he did. I don’t see any change of life from this piece of garbage, I say let him die; he has lived too long on tax payer’s money and of course his own. I would like to see what the money that this killer made was actually spent on. And if racists blacks wish to turn to violence after he is dead and gone, then let them go for it. I say get prepared to fight the violence with force and if that means shoot to kill and ask questions later then use whatever force it takes. It is time that racists blacks take responsability for their actions and stop this bullcrap of Blaming the white community. And if the Arnold jumps on the Black band wagon then he should enjoy the lack of votes he will get, due to lack of Blacks that vote. I hope to see “TOOKIE” die tonight at 12:01am and I will breath a sigh of releif for those that died when I hear he is dead. ENJOY HELL Tookie!!!
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dj will
dONT kILL A MAN WHO HAS HAD TO LIVE WITH HIS CRIMES READ THE BIBLE THE EXECUTION OF THIS MAN WILL SEND HIM STRAIT TO HEVEN LET HIM LIVE WITH THE CRIME HE COMMITTED; O WAIT WHERE IS THE PROOF AND ON ANOTHE THOUGHT WHAT ABOUT BINLADEN ? WHY ISINT HE ON DEAT ROW IN FRONT OF TOOKIE ? BINLADEN KILLS OVER 2300 US CITIZENS AND HE GET A TRIAL ?
WHAT (LIL JOHN QUOTE)
Giovani
Why is it that when a man is sentenced by a jury of his peers, has never been able to convince a court to release him, that one man should let him free.Just becuase one says they are changed and rights a few books does not bring back the 4 people he brutally and uncaringlly massacred. Is it not also true that if he was not caught he would have kept doing the same? or do you believe after killing maybe 10, 20 more people the light bulb would have gone off for him to stop.
wn
Let me get this straight,this punk thug,cofounded the Crips,has committed 4 cold blooded murders and who knows how many others he hurt during his life on the street.Now while he is in prison he writes some childrens books and talks against gangs,and this undoes all the harm here helped to create.How many peoples lives have been destroyed due to this man and his wonderful creativity…street gangs. He was found guiltly by a jury of his peers and the sentence should be carried out.If his redemption is real,then he should have no trouble meeting his God face to face,to give an account of his life.May God show you more mercy than you showed to your victims.
pamela kosmas
jessie jackson is a disgrace, how on earth could he even compare tookie, a brutal murderer of four people to MOSES??????????????????? jackson is nothing more than con artist himself.
Sickand Tired
Burn in Hell, murdering scum.
USA
Kill the nigger. He started terrorism in america and is sorry for it ?
Joe Damico
Just get this over with, its 24 years overdue, geeeez.
c
#39’s should be put to death in the electric chair for their comment posted on this site. What makes you any better? I know,, NOTHING!
Steve
Stanley ‘Tookie’ Williams killed those people and there was ballistics evidence traced to his gun. His two friend that he hung out with reported that he confessed to both of them. I am convinced that Stanley ‘Tookie’ Williams did kill people violently for little or no reason. Regardless of his new jailhouse halo and stuff. He should have thought twice before he killed those people. He referred to the Asian family that he killed as “Buddha-Heads” as he confessed to a friend.
I am against the death penalty, but I feel that Stanley ‘Tookie’ Williams is most definitely guilty.
Bev McDowell
I have read all the stories and actions of this mans past. What good is this going to do? Will it bring back those who alledly were killed by this man? What if the man testifying against Tookie Williams lied and he was actually the shooter? So many what ifs this is not a fair case. It is because he is black and poor. I am American Indian and poor and know exactly what both races go through with the public. I am ashamed of America. Sadam gets TV coverage for killing millions and a trial that will cost billions also a war that is costing us billions while our own Country is falling apart. But, the one man who has changed and has to right the wrongs between gangs is going to be taken out by a Government who cannot control them at all. Who is going to stop this War in our country? Our Government? Or someone who knows the streets and the people? Save Tookie at the last moment please.
jon
The fact that there are impending or feared riots only highlights the ignorance of the general public; of law, morals and ethics. Not only that, but it also reveals the ugly racist, double-standard, political correctness and absurdities of liberalism. They’re as worse as fundamentalists! It’s a sad time for human thought and intelligence.
John
Tookie is dead and I am a happy person. After all the guys is nothing but a nigger who killed 4 people. I guess justice is sweet and this son-of-bitch is dead. The world is a better place. I think I will have a beer to celebrate this losers death!
Zen X
Motherfuckers like USA (commentator #39) exemplify what is wrong with this country and why we have so many Tookie Williamses. The issue at hand is completely obliterated by this asshole’s racism. Now we resort to reaction, vilification and humanization–at that point, when you’ve made someone less than human, less than yourself, then it’s a hell of a lot easier to squeeze that trigger. You are a senseless murderer waiting to pull that trigger. God HELP America, my home sweet home.
"I'm Indian and poor"
Man,you got to be the most retarded American Indian person on this planet. Your dumbass comments about, ” What if the man testifying against……” is so ridiculously funny. Why don’t you get your facts straight before voicing your opinions and who gives a fuck if you are an American Indian and poor, that is simply a lame excuse for anything. Maybe you and other poor black folks should go back to school, finish college, find a job, and maybe that way other people won’t discriminate you ” poor individuals” as much. One more thing, you should not be ashamed of America, I just think that America should be ashamed of you!!!!!!
Carl Yaddow
Should have beheaded him in public. Nothing to do with race. Gangs all over need to GET THE MESSAGE : Cut it out. You aint tough, and even if you were, so what?
A A HOUCK
just glad the punk ass bitch is dead. crying for his life after killing others.
what a pussy!! just to bad for him he waiting to long to do right. most people
cb
You are a bunch of murderers. Colonel Charles Lynch would have been proud of you all bastards.