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Stanley “Tookie” Williams Watch: California Supreme Court Refuses Stay
DEATH CHAMBER: The lethal injection table at San Quentin. The identity of the person who inserts the poison is not revealed.
The ASSociated Press has Calif. High Court Refuses Williams’ Stay
The state Supreme Court late Sunday refused to grant a stay of execution for gang member and convicted killer Stanley Tookie Williams, meaning Williams will be executed early Tuesday unless the governor grants clemency or a last-ditch federal appeal succeeds. Williams’ supporters made another pitch to save his life earlier Sunday, telling Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s staff that they had a new witness who could help prove Williams’ innocence.
“All we need now is time to investigate to make sure this story is real,” said NAACP California President Alice Huffman. “We’re hoping and praying for clemency, but we’re not going to leave any stone unturned.”
The new witness’s statements were sent to Schwarzenegger’s office, where the staff said the governor wouldn’t announce his decision on the clemency request before Monday.
Williams, 51, is scheduled for execution at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday for the deaths of four people in 1979. He would be the 12th inmate executed by the state since California reinstated the death penalty in 1977.
The state’s high court ruled 6-0 against staying the execution, saying Williams’ last-minute appeal lacked merit and was untimely. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Brault had implored the justices early Sunday to dismiss his petition, writing that it “is without merit and is manifestly designed for delay.”
The justices earlier denied a defense request to reopen the case over allegations that shoddy forensics linked a weapon used in three of the 1979 murders to a shotgun registered to Williams.
Well , it is up to the Federal Courts or the Governor…….
Stay tuned…….
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Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: NO Sunday Decision for Schwarzenegger
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: The Foreign Media
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: Execution DetailsStanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: Los Angeles Councilmembers Urge Calm over Tookie Clemency
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: FATE in the Hands of California Governor Schwarzenegger
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: Schwarzenegger Considers Tookie’s Fate
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: Scenes from the Clemency Hearing
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: A Question of Mercy @ 10 AM Clemency Hearing?Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: Cobb – But That’s Different
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: NAACP Chief Bruce Gordon Champions “CRIPS†Founder
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: Political Risks
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: Clemency Hearing to Include Claim there were Errors in Trial
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: NOT Afraid to Die
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: A Tookie Store for Conservatives is NOW Open
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: Stars rally around Condemned Killer
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: California Supreme Court Refuses to Halt Execution
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: NO REMORSEStanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: Tookie’s “Human Angelâ€
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: Isn’t it The Truth By Cobb
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: Schwarzenegger to Hold Private Clemency Hearing
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: California Governor Schwarzenegger MULLS ClemencyStanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: FLAP Over “Tookie Must Dieâ€
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: Jesse Jackson, Bianca Jagger Plead for LIFE
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: SNOOP DOGG BEGS SCHWARZENEGGER FOR CLEMENCY
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: California’s Life-and-Death Politics
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: Death Warrant Signed
Technorati Tags: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Stanley Tookie Williams, Crips
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Michael Ramirez on Howard Dean and Democrat Iraq War Policy
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Cindy Sheehan Watch: Sheehan Play debuts in England
U.S. peace activist Cindy Sheehan arrives at the Scottish parliament in Edinburgh to speak out against the war in Iraq, Thursday Dec. 8, 2005. Sheehan who is making her first visit to Scotland hit the headlines earlier this year when she set up camp outside U.S. President George Bush’s ranch in Texas, demanding he speak to her about her 24-year-old son Casey’s death.
Reuters has ‘Peace mom’ Sheehan in new play by Nobel winner
U.S. peace activist Cindy Sheehan, who won wide attention with a vigil outside President George W. Bush’s ranch in the name of her soldier son killed in Iraq, is the subject of a new play by Nobel laureate Dario Fo.
“Peace Mom” received its world premiere in London on Saturday night, starring British actress Frances de la Tour, with both Sheehan and Italian dramatist Fo in the audience.
The one-woman show is based on extracts from Sheehan’s letters to Bush and other writings. De la Tour delivered the monologues beneath large pictures of Sheehan’s son Casey and a tank in the Iraqi desert in front of a plume of fire.
“Frances did such an amazing job of conveying my feelings of anger and betrayal,” a tearful Sheehan said after the play.
Those Lefties in Europe will LOVE This stuff.
But, will it SELL?
Probably, since the Europeans LOVE to bash America.
The play was rushed into production to conclude a day-long conference of activists opposed to the U.S.-led war in Iraq, with de la Tour reading some passages from a script.
Fo, the leftist playwright who won the 1997 Nobel Prize for Literature, said his wife and artistic partner Franca Rame would star in a longer final version of the play in Italy.
But, NOT ready for the New York stage……..
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Nuclear Option Watch: Filibuster Rule Change for Alito?
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) appears on ‘Fox News Sunday’ with host Chris Wallace from the ‘Fox News Sunday’ studios in Washington December 11, 2005. Frist said he would unequivocally support the use of the ‘nuclear option’ if the Democrats try to filibuster the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Samuel Alito. Frist added, ‘I have stood from day one on principle that these Supreme Court justices — nominees deserve an up or down vote, and it would be absolutely wrong to deny him that.’
The ASSociated Press has Frist Says He’s Ready to Block Filibuster
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Sunday he is prepared to strip Democrats of their ability to filibuster if they try to stall Samuel Alito’s nomination to the Supreme Court.
“The answer is yes,” Frist said when asked if he would act to change Senate procedures to restrict a Democratic filibuster. “Supreme Court justice nominees deserve an up-or-down vote, and it would be absolutely wrong to deny him that.”
Democrats immediately called Frist’s words unhelpful and potentially incendiary. They said Senate Democrats are waiting for the Judiciary Committee to act on Alito’s nomination before they decide what they may do.
“Sen. Frist has thrown down the gauntlet at a time when the country least needs it,” said New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, a Democratic member of the Judiciary Committee. “The American people know that checks and balances are an integral part of our government.”
Judge Alito deserves an up or down vote. He is NOT Harriet Miers.
If the Lefties filibuster – change the Senate rules and confirm him.
To Senator Schumer: BRING IT ON!
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Stanley “Tookie” Williams Watch: NO Sunday Decision for Schwarzenegger
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger departs a press conference in Sacramento, California. Schwarzenegger was considering whether to spare the life of condemned gang founder Stanley ‘Tookie’ Williams.
Reuters has Schwarzenegger still undecided on gang leader
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will not decide on Sunday whether to grant clemency to former Crips gang leader Stanley Tookie Williams, who is slated to be executed this week for murdering four people in 1979, his office said.
As Williams awaited the clemency decision, his lawyers sought to prevent his scheduled Tuesday execution with a new petition to the California Supreme Court.
Barring clemency or last-minute court intervention, officials will administer a lethal injection to Williams at 12:01 a.m. on Tuesday in the death chamber at San Quentin State Prison.
“Mr. Williams has maintained his innocence since the day he was arrested,” Attorney Verna Wefald wrote in the petition filed to the state’s top court on Saturday.
The Governor will probably wait until the California Supreme Court rejects this latest plea. The court could grant an emergency stay and the death watch will be going on and on and on………
24 years of appeals. A 1981 conviction.
When is enough ENOUGH?
Members of the Los Angeles City Council Commission on Human Relations hold a news conference to call on the city to remain peaceful and lawful, as California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger decides the fate of Stan ‘Tookie’ Williams on Friday, Dec. 9, 2005, at the Los Angeles City Hall. From left: Robin Toma, Executive Director Commission on Human Relations; Councilwoman 9th District Jan Perry; Councilman 8th District Bernard Parks; Rabbi Allen Freehling, Human Relations Commission Executive Director; Herb Wesson, 10th Councilman and Councilman 11th District Bill Rosendahl.
Michelle Malkin has a great Sunday post of the Tookie Files, TOOKIE FILES: TENSION BUILDS
Still no decision from Gov. Schwarzenegger. The clock is ticking. SFChronicle reports:
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger did not announce his decision Saturday regarding Stanley Tookie Williams’ request for clemency, giving him less than two days to decide whether Williams should be spared the lethal injection he is scheduled to receive at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday.
Administration officials have not said when the governor will accept or reject Williams’ clemency plea.
Williams’ last legal appeal was denied last week by the state Supreme Court, but lawyers for the Death Row inmate have not ruled out more last-minute appeals.
Exhibits pertaining to the case were filed with the U.S. Supreme Court and Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals late Friday that would be part of an appeal request, although Jonathan Harris, an attorney for Williams, said the filing did not necessarily mean attorneys would file an appeal.
Harris would not describe what exhibits were filed with the court.
Meanwhile, Jesse Jackson bloviates.
Riot fears blossom.
Opinion is divided in South Los Angeles.
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Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: The Foreign Media
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: Execution DetailsStanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: Los Angeles Councilmembers Urge Calm over Tookie Clemency
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: FATE in the Hands of California Governor Schwarzenegger
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: Schwarzenegger Considers Tookie’s Fate
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: Scenes from the Clemency Hearing
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: A Question of Mercy @ 10 AM Clemency Hearing?Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: Cobb – But That’s Different
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: NAACP Chief Bruce Gordon Champions “CRIPS†Founder
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: Political Risks
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: Clemency Hearing to Include Claim there were Errors in Trial
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: NOT Afraid to Die
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: A Tookie Store for Conservatives is NOW Open
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: Stars rally around Condemned Killer
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: California Supreme Court Refuses to Halt Execution
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: NO REMORSEStanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: Tookie’s “Human Angelâ€
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: Isn’t it The Truth By Cobb
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: Schwarzenegger to Hold Private Clemency Hearing
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: California Governor Schwarzenegger MULLS ClemencyStanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: FLAP Over “Tookie Must Dieâ€
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: Jesse Jackson, Bianca Jagger Plead for LIFE
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: SNOOP DOGG BEGS SCHWARZENEGGER FOR CLEMENCY
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: California’s Life-and-Death Politics
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: Death Warrant Signed
Technorati Tags: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Stanley Tookie Williams, Crips
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Stanley “Tookie” Williams Watch: The Foreign Media
Two police cruisers, left, watch over a small group of anti-death penalty advocates outside of Gov. Schwarzenegger’s estate in Brentwood, Calif., Saturday Dec. 10, 2005. Stanley Tookie Williams is scheduled to die at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday by lethal injection at San Quentin State Prison. Williams would be the 12th inmate executed since California reinstated the death penalty in 1977.
While we are waiting for California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to make an announcement regarding the clemency petition, the Los Angeles Times has this piece on the reaction of the foreign press and media on the Tookie William’s case.
The Los Angeles Times has Glitz and Gore of Williams Case Draw Foreign Media
European reporters have swarmed enthusiastically around the story of Stanley Tookie Williams. And why not?The pending execution of the convicted killer allows them to talk about class and race in America, and mark another milepost in the enduring discussion about the last Western democracy to sanction the death penalty.
And then there’s the “glitter,” as one Italian reporter put it last week — supplied by California’s European-born, movie-star governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and by the virtual Greek chorus of Williams’ celebrity supporters, including actors Jamie Foxx and Danny Glover, and rap star Snoop Dogg.
The stars of glitz, gore and glamour last aligned for the O.J. Simpson murder trial.
“It’s got a lot of gosh-wow to it, doesn’t it?” David Willis, the BBC’s West Coast correspondent, said after a clemency hearing for Williams in Schwarzenegger’s office Thursday morning. “It’s just a very layered and interesting story.”
And so Willis filed three two-minute packages on the Williams case and appeared in half a dozen other live shots in a 24-hour period ending Thursday. All those stories were beamed back to England and the rest of the British network’s worldwide market.French, German, Greek and Italian reporters covering the case expressed many of the same feelings — feeding an appetite for stories from their home offices that has grown as the time for Schwarzenegger’s decision grows short. Without clemency, Williams is scheduled to die at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday.
The LEFTIE press/media of Europe just love to bash America. And why should this be the exception.
The tabloid press of the United Kingdom is almost laughable if it was not so sad.
Indicating the magnitude of the story in recent days, particularly in Europe, Paolo Bonolis, one of Italy’s most popular television personalities, conducted an eight-minute telephone interview with Williams on the nighttime magazine program “Il Senso della Vita” (The Sense of Life).
Many of the continent’s other top news programs plan to weigh in with extended packages in coming days.
The overseas fixation on American death cases is not new.
Many European newspapers and television news programs carried reports after Kenneth Lee Boyd died of lethal injection Dec. 2, the 1,000th execution since the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for the death penalty to resume in 1976.
Sex and death sells.
But, the foreign press do a disservice to their readers but not presenting a “fair and balanced” view of the atrocitiy afforded Tookie Williams’ victims.
Since Arnold has not as of yet made an announcment 10:45 AM PST, Flap handicaps an announcement denying clemency sometime this afternoon or early evening.
Stay tuned…….
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Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: Execution DetailsStanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: Los Angeles Councilmembers Urge Calm over Tookie Clemency
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: FATE in the Hands of California Governor Schwarzenegger
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: Schwarzenegger Considers Tookie’s Fate
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: Scenes from the Clemency Hearing
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: A Question of Mercy @ 10 AM Clemency Hearing?Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: Cobb – But That’s Different
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: NAACP Chief Bruce Gordon Champions “CRIPS†Founder
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: Political Risks
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: Clemency Hearing to Include Claim there were Errors in Trial
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: NOT Afraid to Die
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: A Tookie Store for Conservatives is NOW Open
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: Stars rally around Condemned Killer
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: California Supreme Court Refuses to Halt Execution
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: NO REMORSEStanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: Tookie’s “Human Angelâ€
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: Isn’t it The Truth By Cobb
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: Schwarzenegger to Hold Private Clemency Hearing
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: California Governor Schwarzenegger MULLS ClemencyStanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: FLAP Over “Tookie Must Dieâ€
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: Jesse Jackson, Bianca Jagger Plead for LIFE
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: SNOOP DOGG BEGS SCHWARZENEGGER FOR CLEMENCY
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: California’s Life-and-Death Politics
Stanley “Tookie†Williams Watch: Death Warrant Signed
Technorati Tags: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Stanley Tookie Williams, Crips
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Day by Day by Chris Muir
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Vote By Vote by Cox & Forkum
We’re in a friendly competition to beat fellow cartoonist Chris Muir, creator of “Day by Day”, in the 2005 Weblog Awards. As the cartoon indicates, we’re losing! Remember, you can vote daily — just click here and vote.
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