Barring Supreme Court intervention, Williams will be executed one minute after midnight PST.
I’ll post Schwarzenegger’s statement here when it becomes available, but from initial reports, he seems to have based his decision on showing deference to the jury. Initial AP report here.
Interesting suggestion in a Los Angeles Times opinion piece
http://www.secondbreakfast.net/archives/002375.html
Translated from Politicianese:
“Tookie? Fuck him.”
SB: human
garbage
– Considering todays date I’m wondering if Tookie kept the 12 days of Christmas tradition….
– The good news for Williams is he’ll soon be able to face his victims and explain it all to them….
The steroid shriveled cojones come through.
“The good news for Williams is he’ll soon be able to face his victims and explain it all to them….”
I doubt it, Williams will be too busy doing the backstroke in lake if fire
This proves that the kiss of death for any cause is to have Bianca Jagger on your side. Other than being married at one time to a rock star, who is she?
TW: “longer” as in, “I’ll bet he wishes he had just a little longer…”
You tookie, now we takie..
Craig, that was shameless. Thank you.
And stolen from Aaron the Liberal Slayer:
Took, Took, Tookie, goodbye
Took, Took, Tookie, don’t cry
Craig,
cold, man…I like it.
Why the hell is there such a fuss about someone who not only killed 4 innocents, but founded the Crips! We should all be quietly grateful that justice finally caught up with him. [I define “justice” very simply as getting what you deserve].
Would we weep if the founder of the PLO died (Oh, wait, if you are a reporter I guess you did…)
Yes.
More please.
I’m not a fan of capital punishment, but the “But (s)He’s a Good Guy Now” reason to end its use is the weakest (see, Karla Faye Tucker).
I love the morons saying “we need more time”!
Hello? This piece of shit has been sitting on death row for twenty-four years now! How much time does he deserve? Kill his ass and get it over with.
Likewise the big-brains saying Arnie should “convene a comission” to decide Tookie’s fate.
Well, y’see we did that – it’s called a “jury” and hangs around with a “court” and “lawyers”.
All together being known as “The Criminal Justice System”.
Hope it helps.
SB: forward
Hmmmm …
this is some sort of foreshadowing or something:
Tookie.Com
if you scroll down to the Apology section you see –
However clicking on the link for the complete apology gets you a ‘not found’ error
Apology
Spooky.
FOX news: “LA prepares for rioting after the ececution of Williams”…
Overheard: “Yeh man….they’re doin’ a brother….gotta grab some plasma’s and cigs….racist pigs”….
I heard this on the radio this morning; something to the effect that if Tookie’s fanbase wants to ensure that he keeps on setting a good example to the kids of today, what he really needs to do is go willingly to the executioner, with the added message that “kids, don’t follow in my footsteps, because this is where they lead”.
Sounds good to me.
Note that his apology for the four murders is conspicuously absent. Probably because they weren’t “black-on-black violence”.
Well, at least it gave us a chance to help crystallize who’s a twonk in Celebrityville.
Generally I find that people who have done… “questionable things” and had a “revelation” about it don’t dodge responsibility for what they did, and don’t “go bitter” on the subject like Tookie does.
Seems more like a guy who knows he’s going to die and will say anything to avoid it, suspecting perhaps that judgement doesn’t end on that silver table.
Now let it be remembered that the only death penalty I support fully and without reservation is the one carried out by the intended victim immediately before the crime occurs.
TW: “life” Now ain’t that a coincidence?
There’s still time for Tookie.
Not if his nickname was ”Tokey” however–then Arnold would have no choice but to light him up.
Tookie’s ‘Apology’ link seems to work now.
Though the apology is specific to founding a super-gang rather than for, you know, killing people.
Well, Bumpersickerist, those muthas had it coming.
As an L.A. native, I am happy that Arnold made this decision. Given his lack of popularity of late, I was afraid he would go the clemency route, but he made the right call. All I’ve been thinking recently is: what’s in it for the citizens of L.A.?
Two dozen years ago, citizens sent this guy away, and he has never shown remorse or admitted guilt for those murders. If he gets clemency, there should be something in it for the law-abiding people Arnold represents, and I heard nothing that would satisfy as an answer.
The mythology surrounding was all about Tookie and him being used as a prop for anti-death penalty activists. He was a poor example for them to use in their cause.
There won’t be any riots down here. The younger gangbangers don’t know about Tookie, and don’t give a shit either. I think that Arnold kept his decision under wraps through the weekend just to give the LAPD the chance to get in place, just in case, but if this town starts to fall apart over this loser, I’ll take my family and hide out in a book store. They won’t go near the place.
AND encouraging black-on-black violence, which as everyone knows is WAY more offensive than other kinds of violence committed by the Crips.
Well, good.
Williams’s involvement in founding the Crips led to a direct, negative influence on my life when a fellow Crips member, Stanley Davis, murdered my best friend and her boyfriend in 1985 with two Uzi shots through their heads. Stanley Davis has been Tookie’s neighbor on Death Row at San Quentin for nearly 17 years now.
As Darleen said, “More please.” And I’ll add, “Faster please.”
Here’s what Tookie’s not apologizing for.
http://www.capitalideasblog.com/
Damn.
Here I was thinking Tookie would get clemency.
Then I, as a white, upper class male, was looking forward to gettin’ in on some riotin’ and lootin’ because of the injustice.
I’m usually conflicted about the death penalty, but not in this case. Buh Bye tookie, time to really pay for your sins.
I’m in favor of the James ”Rocky Sullivan” Cagney scenario myself:
“Tookie Dies Yellow—Killer Coward to the End”
That is HILARIOUS! I almost fell out of the chair…thanks
It’s worth remembering that the people seeking clemency for Tookie aren’t anti-death penalty at all.
There are at least four people (well, actually there aren’t any more) who got the death penalty for the crime of dissing Tookie. All his apologists seem to be right behind that. So they’re fully, enthusiastically in favor of the death penalty—it’s just that they don’t like to see it applied to their heroes and clients.
Regards,
Ric
Craig,
Glad I could supply a laugh amidst this example of our upside-down world (Tookie=Hero).
I’m surprised I haven’t been labeled racist honky scum for my comments……yet.
Big Bang Hunter—Briefly. Those escalators pass each other pretty fast…
Amen, Athena. And my deepest (if belated) sympathies for your loss.
I think that the State shouldn’t go to the expense of executing these criminals, just the expense of burying them. So what if they’re still breathing and protesting? Earplugs are a lot cheaper than all those icky chemicals.
SW: It wouldn’t take long…
F*ck Mike Farrell.
What the heck did Stanley Tucci ever do to anyone?
Aside from, you know, “Maid in Manhattan”?
I just get a kick out of hearing the word “Tookie.”
Too bad it will be going away in six short hours.
Yo, Governator – Line ‘em up, flip the switch!
Do you suppose Arnold asked Tookie what he benches before he told him he was givin’ him the juice?
I’m actually against the death penalty. But the anti-death penalty people make me wish I were for it.
I’m against the death penalty. BUT… I’m for killing people guilty of treason against the US.
This asshole founded a criminal gang which makes its living, in part, by selling fake IDs to whoever comes up with the cash, and they ain’t too picky.
Add to that his decades of playing games with the US justice system and… heh. Well.
Pity they don’t use Ol’ Sparky anymore. I’d bring marshmallows.
I think Ahnold’s just warming up the Pun-O-Rator:
“Tonight we bake Christmas Tookie.”
Crap, no chair? Blows my joke all to hell, doesn’t it?
If we could get a workable definition of cruel and unusual punishment, so that these scumbags could be forced to work and pay there own way, I would be against the death penalty. But the idea of working folks tax dollars supporting these vermin for years just rubs me the wrong way.
I don’t know about cruel, but it’s only unusual the first time you do it. ;D rto would usual argue with me that it actually costs more to put someone to death what with the cost of five million appeals and such, he never provided evidence, but maybe someone has time to research it?
Wait, I have it:
BURN, BABY, BURN!
…oh wait…no more the chair, nor the gas iirc…no sweat, he’ll burn nonetheless.
The regrettable thing is that upon sounding of gavel that twenty-odd years ago, no one seized him by the hair, dragged him down a corridor to a well-drained execution chamber, slammed him to his knees and shot him in the back of the head.
Oh no, wait, that’s a good thing.
He shot his victims in the face.
“Take.” Indeed.
It seems to me that Arnold came off very well in this way. He considered the case for clemency, then decided against it.
Slightly off topic: does anyone know where Arnold stands in the ACLU War Against Christmas? I assume he sides with the majority in thinking that the ACLU is wrong. I was thinking that in his next movie, he could use “Merry Christmas, baby” as a tagline along the lines of “Hasta La Vista”. That would be great, in so many ways, to see him say “Merry Christmas, baby” as he mows down a bunch of middle eastern terrorists.
Anybody hear what his last words were? I was just wondering if he gave a warning to the kids he is so concerned about, seems to me like it would be pretty effective as you walking spanish down the hall. That is, if he was really sincere about caring for the children and all.
Some smug “human rights activist” (yes, I know, is there any other kind?). She was on my TV this morning, describing the execution, and said that poor widdle Tookie’s last expression was one of “shame on you” – which I assume is directed at us unenlightened yokels in the general public.
Actually, I feel no need for shame; you see, I’ve never actually killed anyone. Nor have I ever been a cheerleader for the criminal class, like Ms. Jagger or Mike Farrell.
B Moe
From the talk I’ve heard on the radio and read here, Tookie raised his head a few times, looking at the few supporters that were there as witnesses as they held up the clenched-fist-black-power salute.
One of my co-workers, who apparently has a more refined sense of morality than I, made a joke today about sending Gov. Schwarzenegger back to Austria.
Shut the fuck up you fucken bitches!!! Let Mr. Stanley Tookie Williams Rest In Peace already. You guys must be a bunch of fucken red neck
I live in a non-death penalty state and I”M PROUD OF IT. Apparently whatever this web site is, you all just want to KIL, KILL, KILL!
I DO NOT BELIEVE IN THE DEATH PENALTY AND I NEVER WILL NO MATTER WHO IT IS OR WHAT THEY DID!!