Profile: Stanley ‘Tookie‘ Williams = Tuesday, December 13th, 2005

Profile: Stanley ‘Tookie‘ Williams = Tuesday, December 13th, 2005

The Liberation Struggle for liberty and justice for all goes onward!!!
Earth's cry, Heaven's smile! ~ Companero Peta

"I’ll go through it with dignity, with integrity, with love and bliss in my heart…..”
~+~ Comrade Tookie, New York Times Interview: Dec. 2, 2005.

Scheduled Execution Date and Time of Brother Stanley 'Tookie' Williams
= December 13, 2005 @ 12:01 AM

Petition Online: Clemency for Stanley "Tookie" Williams
Host Email: chaddrakeley@yahoo.com
http://www.petitiononline.com/stw4804/petition.html

Petition to Save Tookie Sponsored by ~ http://www.savetookie.org/ Email Address ~ staff@savetookie.org http://www.petitionthem.com/default.asp?sect=detail&pet=2240

Who is Stan Tookie Williams? = Stan was the co-founder in 1971 of the Los Angeles Crips gang. In 1981 he was convicted of murdering four people during two robberies and sentenced to death row at San Quentin State Prison. Stan deeply regrets his gang involvement but has always maintained his innocence of these crimes.
http://www.savetookie.org/documents/tookie_fact_sheet_10.18.05.pdf

The U.S. Supreme Court, on October 11, 2005, ruled against Tookie on his final appeal and set his execution date for December 13. Thus they disregarded 9 of the 24 Ninth Circuit Court judges' assertion that the District Attorney at Tookie's trial employed "reprehensible and unconstitutional" racist tactics, using animal-in-a-jungle metaphors to refer to Tookie and to the South Central environment in which he lived. This landmark ruling means that minorities can now legally be rejected from juries based on race. This is now the law of the land. (download fact sheet about Tookie's case) Email: tookie@tookie.com
Tookie Home Page: http://www.tookie.com/

Stanley "Tookie" Williams (born December 29, 1953) was the founder, along with Raymond Washington, of the Crips, a Los Angeles, California youth protection organization that grew, after Williams' incarceration and Washington's murder, into one of the most widely-known and notorious street gangs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Williams

The Tookie Protocol for Peace / A Local Street Peace Initiatve ~online version
http://www.tookie.com/protocol/table.of.contents.html

The Tookie Protocol for Peace / A Local Street Peace Initiatve ~pdf
http://www.tookie.com/protocol/tookie_peace_protocol.pdf

Discovery Motion Reveals Police, Prosecutorial Misconduct in Tookie's Original Trial
http://www.tookie.com/brady_discovery_motion.pdf

Tookie’s Corner: Public Service Announcements {PSAs}
http://www.tookie.com/tookie_psa.html

The Apology: Twenty-five years ago when I created the Crips youth gang with Raymond Lee Washington in South Central Los Angeles, I never imagined Crips membership would one day spread throughout California, would spread to much of the rest of the nation and to cities in South Africa, where Crips copycat gangs have formed. I also didn't expect the Crips to end up ruining the lives of so many young people, especially young black men who have hurt other young black men.
http://www.tookie.com/apology.html

Book Club: These books were written by Stanley "Tookie" Williams and Barbara Cottman Becnel with the hope of teaching children about the dangers of being involved with gangs. The Tookie Speaks Out books are published by Power Kids Press. You may contact Power Kids Press, a division of Rosen Publishing, at 1-800-237-9932.
http://www.tookie.com/booktemp.html
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Crips founder Williams executed at San Quentin Anti-gang efforts in prison drew world attention = Tuesday, December 13, 2005 [Updated: 2:28 a.m. Tuesday] SAN QUENTIN - Stanley "Tookie" Williams wrote that he entered the world in a crude Caesarean section as his mother sang "Silent Night" to mask the pain. He left the world Tuesday morning - executed at San Quentin State Prison - amid a clamor of protests and fears of rioting, while those most affected by his crimes tried to find their peace. http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/story/13974284p-14808070c.html

Stanley Tookie Williams executed
Crips gang co-founder put to death for 4 murders
Tuesday, December 13, 2005; Posted: 3:59 a.m. EST (08:59 GMT)
SAN QUENTIN, California (CNN) -- Stanley Tookie Williams -- the co-founder of the violent Crips street gang who became an anti-gang crusader while on death-row -- died by lethal injection early Tuesday for the 1979 killings of four people in two Los Angles robberies.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/12/13/williams.execution/index.html

Calif. killer turned peacemaker Williams executed
SAN QUENTIN, California (Reuters) - California prison officials executed Stanley Tookie Williams, 51, the ex-leader of the Crips gang who brutally killed four people in 1979, early on Tuesday after top courts and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger rejected final appeals to spare his life. The unofficial time of death was 12:35 a.m. PST Tuesday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051213/pl_nm/crime_execution_tookie_dc

Article Launched: 12/13/2005 12:00:00 AM
Governor, Supreme Court decisions leave no obstacle to execution.
By Josh Kleinbaum, Staff writer
His hope for clemency rejected and his legal appeals exhausted, Stanley Tookie Williams faced execution by lethal injection today at 12:01 a.m. for the cold-blooded murders of four people 26 years ago.
http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_3303651
Posted on Tue, Dec. 13, 2005
Hundreds hold vigil for condemned Williams
SAN QUENTIN, Calif. - They braved the chilly night air with lit candles, drums and large signs.
Many chanted "Let Tookie Live." Others sang or meditated quietly with eyes closed. Some brought young children. More than 1,500 people gathered Monday night at the gates of San Quentin to keep an emotional vigil for condemned killer Stanley Tookie Williams.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/sports/13395480.htm

Williams just hours from execution
High court, Schwarzenegger deny clemency for former gang leader
Tuesday, December 13, 2005; Posted: 1:44 a.m. EST (06:44 GMT)
SAN QUENTIN, California (CNN) -- His appeals seemingly exhausted, convicted killer and Crips gang co-founder Stanley Tookie Williams neared execution early Tuesday at the California state prison at San Quentin.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/12/13/williams.execution/index.html

Governor Didn't Believe Williams Had Reformed
= December 13, 2005
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger did not just reject Stanley Tookie Williams' request for clemency, he aggressively attacked the central element of the former gang leader's case: Williams, he said, had never really reformed.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-analysis13dec13,0,4494420.story?coll=la-home-headlines&vote20933579=1

Second execution delay denied
= Posted on Mon, Dec. 12, 2005
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger denied a second request to delay the execution of Stanley Tookie Williams less than an hour before the Crips gang co-founder and Nobel Peace Price nominee was scheduled to die for the shotgun slayings of four people in 1979.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/13395129.htm

Governor Schwarzenegger Denies Clemency for Gang Co-Founder
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 12 - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced today that he would not grant clemency to Stanley Tookie Williams, whose bid to avoid being put to death shortly after midnight tonight has gained wide attention.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/12/national/12-tookie.html?hp&ex=1134450000&en=c999baa06ed15874&ei=5094&partner=homepage

Text: Statement of Decision by the Governor (pdf)
Dated: December 12, 2005
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/national/Williams_Clemency_Decision.pdf

Text: Excerpts From an Interview With Mr. Williams
= Published December 12, 2005
Two weeks to the day before his scheduled execution, which is set for 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, Stanley Tookie Williams sat in a cramped visiting cell at San Quentin State Prison and talked for 90 minutes with Adam Liptak of The New York Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/12/national/12cnd-quotes.html

Williams awaits decision on fate + State Supreme Court rejects appeal; bid for clemency unsettled.
= Published 2:15 am PST Monday, December 12, 2005
San Quentin prisoner C29300 - better known as Stanley "Tookie" Williams - will be moved to a new holding cell this evening, get a clean set of clothes and will wait a few steps from where he is scheduled to die.
http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/story/13970683p-14804727c.html

California justices reject Williams' appeal
Governor to decide Monday = Sunday, December 11, 2005
SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- The California 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.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/12/11/williams.execution.ap/index.html

Californians soul-searching in countdown to execution
Two-thirds in state support the death penalty, but polls haven't asked questions about redemption
Joe Garofoli, Chronicle Staff Writer
= Sunday, December 11, 2005
Pollsters regularly measure the public's opinion of the death penalty, but there is scant research on the soul-searching question that shrouds the case of Stanley Tookie Williams, the quadruple killer and gang founder who is scheduled to be executed Tuesday in San Quentin prison:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/12/11/MNG0FG6ANF1.DTL

Key dates in Stanley Tookie Williams case =Sat, Dec. 10, 2005
_ Dec. 29, 1953: Stanley Tookie Williams III born in New Orleans.
_ 1959: Williams and his mother move to Los Angeles.
_ 1971: Williams and high school friend, Raymond Washington, co-found Crips gang in Los Angeles. Washington shot and killed in August 1979.
_ Feb. 28, 1979: Albert Owens, 26, a 7-Eleven clerk in Whittier, shot twice in the back.
_ March 11, 1979: Yen-I Yang, 76, his wife, Tsai-Shai Yang, 63, and their visiting daughter, Yee-Chen Lin, 43, fatally shot during a robbery at their Brookhaven Motel in Los Angeles.
_ March 15, 1979: Williams arrested.
_ April 5, 1981: Williams sentenced to death in a Torrance, Calif., courtroom for four counts of first-degree murder in the slayings.
_ Feb. 2, 2005: 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals issues final denial for rehearing the case.
_ Oct. 11, 2005: U.S. Supreme Court denies final petition.
_ Nov. 30, 2005: California Supreme Court refuses to reopen case.
_ Dec. 8, 2005: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger holds private clemency hearing with prosecutors and defense lawyers.
_ Dec. 13, 2005: Williams scheduled to die by lethal injection at 12:01 a.m.
Sources: "Blue Rage, Black Redemption: A Memoir" by Stanley Tookie Williams, the California attorney general's office, court documents.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/13378796.htm

Life or death - it's up to governor = Published 2:15 am PST Thursday, December 8, 2005
Schwarzenegger will hold clemency hearing today for Crips co-founder.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will be presented with one of the most difficult decisions of his 25 months in office today when he conducts a private clemency hearing for convicted multiple murderer and street gang co-founder Stanley "Tookie" Williams.
http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/story/13953590p-14788103c.html

NAACP joins Williams' fight / Civil rights group's leader says killer merits clemency
= Wednesday, December 7, 2005
The president of the NAACP lent the name of the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization Tuesday to the clemency cause of Stanley "Tookie" Williams, the street-gang leader who is scheduled to be executed next week for the murders of four people in Los Angeles County in 1979.
http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/story/13949528p-14784218c.html

MEASURE OF A MAN’S LIFE Questions of redemption, atonement and clemency swirl as Stanley Tookie Williams’ execution date approaches
Leslie Fulbright, Chronicle Staff Writer ~ Email: lfulbright@sfchronicle.com
The writings of Stanley Tookie Williams = Sunday, December 4, 2005
Excerpts from books written by murderer Stanley Tookie Williams with the aim of guiding children away from gang life…
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/12/04/MNGOLG2JH71.DTL

MEASURE OF A MAN’S LIFE {Continued}
= Sunday, December 4, 2005
AS A REDEEMER
A .45-caliber bullet didn't lead Diego Garcia to give up the violent gang life he had known for years. Stanley Tookie Williams did.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/12/04/MNGH0G2P9H1.DTL&hw=Tookie&sn=001&sc=1000

Williams says he's prepared for death but hopes for life = Friday, December 2, 2005
In interview, condemned killer denies guilt, tells of redemption
Stanley Tookie Williams is not afraid to die
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/12/02/MNGSNG1SQD1.DTL

SAN FRANCISCO: State high court rejects Williams' last-ditch appeal /
His lawyers sought new examination of his shotgun = Thursday, December 1, 2005
The state Supreme Court turned down a final appeal Wednesday by condemned prisoner Stanley Tookie Williams, who wanted a new look at the evidence that led to his convictions for four Los Angeles-area murders in 1979.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/12/01/BAG23G0VCR1.DTL

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005
A Conversation with Death Row Prisoner Stanley Tookie Williams from his San Quentin Cell
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In a half-hour interview, death row prisoner Stanley Tookie Williams speaks from his cell in San Quentin about his case, his life and his redemption. He helped start the Crips street gang - his greatest regret - but behind bars he has become a leading advocate for the end of gang violence. He has written nine books and has been nominated several times for the Nobel Peace Prize. He is scheduled to die on Dec. 13 unless Governor Schwarzenegger grants him clemency. Actions are planned across the world today in what has been described as International Save Tookie Day.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/30/153247

STATE: Governor agrees to Williams hearing / Convicted killer gets closer to possible clemency
= Saturday, November 26, 2005
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has decided to hold a clemency hearing Dec. 8 for Stanley Tookie Williams, the condemned killer who has attracted a number of high-profile backers calling for his life to be spared.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/11/26/BAGG3FUEJA1.DTL

Jackson, Jagger visit Death Row inmate
= Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Civil rights activists Jesse Jackson and Bianca Jagger leave San Quentin State Prison on Monday after visiting Death Row inmate Stanley Tookie Williams, who is scheduled to be executed Dec. 13 for the murders of four people in 1979.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/11/22/BAG1OFSC2M1.DTL

Governor dreading decision on life or death / Without clemency, Williams' execution is just weeks away = Monday, November 21, 2005
Sacramento -- It was 1976, according to Stanley Tookie Williams, when he met a young Austrian bodybuilder along the Venice Beach boardwalk, then the epicenter of the Southern California muscle culture
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/11/21/MNGUFFRRP11.DTL
Supporters rally for 'Tookie' Williams in Sacramento = Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Death penalty foes and supporters of condemned inmate Stanley "Tookie" Williams' bid for clemency gathered Wednesday outside of Sacramento City Hall, calling for an end to violence as the state prepares to execute the co-founder of the Crips later this month.
http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/story/13921047p-14758118c.html

The Fight to Save Stan Tookie Williams
= Tue Nov 29, 2005
The Nation -- "Years ago, I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth.... While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free." --Eugene V. Debs
http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20051129/cm_thenation/20051212zirin;_ylt=A86.I2hcDI5DOz0ASDL9wxIF;_ylu=X3oDMTBjMHVqMTQ4BHNlYwN5bnN1YmNhdA --
Beat the Needle: Saving Tookie Williams =Weekend Edition: November 26 / 27, 2005
THE STATE of California is racing to execute Stan Tookie Williams, its most famous death row prisoner. And in response, people from all walks of life--Hollywood stars, anti-death penalty activists, former gang members, educators and more--are now racing to save his life.
http://www.counterpunch.org/ruder11262005.html
Governor to RULE on Williams case =11-26-05=
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will hold a private clemency hearing for convicted murderer Stanley "Tookie" Williams to determine whether the co-founder of the Crips street gang will live or die.
http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/courts_legal/story/13907432p-14745941c.html

Crip's death row drama gains star support
= Saturday, November 26, 2005
Los Angeles (AP) - Jamie Foxx stepped into the spotlight at his latest movie premiere with more than the usual publicity drill in mind.
http://www.sacbee.com/24hour/front/story/2929509p-11599852c.html

SAN QUENTIN: Crowd at prison urges clemency for killer / Crips founder has written kids' books promoting peace = Sunday, November 20, 2005
More than a thousand people gathered at the gates to San Quentin prison Saturday morning to denounce the death penalty and ask the governor to have mercy on Stanley "Tookie" Williams, who is to be executed next month.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/11/20/BAGJRFRFS81.DTL

Crips Founder's Life in Governator's Hands
= 11-20-05
Death row inmate asks clemency; allies say he has reformed. =Sunday, November 20, 2005
His defenders say he has attained "purpose," that his founder's role in the gang wars that blasted inner-city Los Angeles has been redeemed by a new message of hope he's laying out to the young and troubled.
http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/story/13884644p-14723706c.html

Snoop Dogg joins protest against Williams execution = Mon, Nov. 14, 2005
Rap star Snoop Dogg will head a youth rally on Saturday outside San Quentin State Prison to protest the Dec. 13 scheduled execution of convicted murderer and former Crips gang co-founder Stanley "Tookie" Williams.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/13167008.htm

Editorial: Clemency for 'Tookie' Williams
= Thursday, November 3, 2005
On Dec. 13 at 12:01 a.m., Stanley "Tookie" Williams, who helped found the Crips gang in Los Angeles at the age of 17, is scheduled to die in the execution chamber at San Quentin Prison. His only chance to escape death by lethal injection is a grant of clemency from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/11/03/EDG9UFHKDA1.DTL

Supreme Court clears way for execution in December / The race to execute Stan Tookie Williams By Phil Gasper =October 21, 2005
On October 11, the U.S. Supreme Court declared it would not hear the appeal of Stanley Tookie Williams. That clears the way for the state of California to try to execute its most famous death row prisoner.
http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-2/562/562_02_StanWilliams.shtml

CALIFORNIA: Nobel nominee's death appeal denied / 2 others also lose -- 3 executions now a possibility = Wednesday, October 12, 2005
The U.S. Supreme Court denied appeals by two California Death Row inmates Tuesday, one of them Stanley "Tookie" Williams, a gang founder and convicted killer of four who has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his prison writings warning young people against the gang life.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/10/12/BAG1OF6UUC1.DTL

Supreme Court Declines to Consider Saving Stan "Tookie" Williams by SaveTookie.org
=Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2005 at 12:10 PM
The U.S. Supreme Court has now rejected Tookie's appeal to investigate the racism and discrimination at the heart of his case, as well as Tookie's innocence issues. One issue highlighted the fact that the prosecutor in Tookie's original case removed all of the Black jurors from the jury, leaving an all-white jury to deliberate his case. During Stan's trial, this prosecutor made racially-coded remarks during his closing argument, comparing Stan during the trial to a Bengal tiger in the zoo and stating that a black community - South Central Los Angeles - was equivalent to the natural "habitat" of a Bengal Tiger.
http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/10/1773885.php Comment: http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/10/1773885.php
California: Condemned murderer of 4 loses appeal of death sentence
He was nominated for Nobel Prize for his writings
=Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer E-mail: begelko@sfchronicle.com = Thursday, February 3, 2005
Stanley "Tookie'' Williams, co-founder of the Crips street gang, condemned murderer of four people and Nobel Prize nominee for his anti-gang writings from Death Row, lost a federal court appeal of his death sentence Wednesday and could face execution later this year.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/02/03/BAGMTB4IKJ1.DTL

The Redemption of Stanley (Tookie) Williams =Sunday, April 11, 2004
Stanley (Tookie) Williams was the leader of the Crips in south central LA. He's been on death row for 23 years. While in jail, he became an anti-gang activist, wrote children's books and was nominated by a member of the Swiss Parliament for the Nobel Prize. In 1999, he was visited by Winnie Mandela.
http://talkleft.com/new_archives/006049.html

Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, a regular feature of PBS television, features the complete transcript of a February, 2001, news story on Tookie and his nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week425/cover.html

An Inspiration From Death Row
= Monday, December 11, 2000
Stanley "Tookie" Williams seeks redemption word by word -- delivering them to the young people in danger of repeating his mistake.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/12/11/MN114687.DTL

Practicing Peace = In a North Richmond enclave, troubled kids learn not to fight
= Monday, December 11, 2000
Richmond -- Robert Matlock used to have a short fuse. It took as little as one word to set him off.
Then he learned about Tookie. That's Stanley "Tookie" Williams, San Quentin Death Row inmate, co-founder of the Crips gang and Nobel Peace Prize nominee.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/12/11/MN160406.DTL

Antigang 'Role Model' Is Up for a Nobel and Execution =December 6, 2000
North Richmond, Calif., Nov. 30 — The old, dingy house that serves as an after-school center for this impoverished East Bay town was alive with happy noise. Children crammed both floors, their presence masking the shabbiness of the furniture and filling the empty spaces on the yellowed walls. They pecked away on computer keyboards, sat at school desks finishing compositions and stuffed themselves into a corner room to hear Martika Pittman, 10, read aloud from a book by an ex- gang leader now on death row:
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/06/national/06PRIS.html?ex=1133413200&en=ad363d7bcd253fc2&ei=5070&pagewanted=all
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