Get Out The Riot Gear, California!
December 12th, 2005 at 4:11 pm by Preston Taylor Holmes(via Fox News Alert)
Looks like we’ll soon be able to reference Tookie in past tense.
Williams, 51, was set to die by injection at San Quentin State Prison after midnight for murdering four people in two 1979 holdups.
Earlier, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refused to block the looming execution of Williams, the former gang leader who became an outspoken critic of gang violence. Late Sunday, the California Supreme Court refused to grant a stay of execution.
Schwarzenegger was unswayed by pleas from Hollywood stars and petitions from more than 50,000 people who said that Williams had made amends during more than two decades in prison by writing a memoir and children’s books about the dangers of gangs.
“After studying the evidence, searching the history, listening to the arguments and wrestling with the profound consequences, I could find no justification for granting clemency,” Schwarzenegger said, less than 12 hours before the execution. “The facts do not justify overturning the jury’s verdict or the decisions of the courts in this case.”
Congrats on growing a set, Gov.
Somewhere a single tear rolls down Tim Robbins’ face down onto the top of Susan Sarandon’s empty head.
UPDATE:
Upon receiving this news from me via e-mail, Mrs. Holmes made the following comment:
Is it any wonder I married her? I think not.
YET ANOTHER UPDATE:
SCOTUS just wagged its collective finger at Tookie’s legal brigade and said “don’t bring that shit up in here!”
See Jeff’s Tookiemeter for more updates and a live countdown. It’s like a New Year’s Rockin’ Eve for justice.
Tookie’s last meal: Food.
Tookie’s victims’ last meal: Their own blood and guts as their bodies were riddled with shotgun blasts.
Tookie’s getting off way too easy.
December 12th, 2005 at 4:26 pm
He is the TERMINATOR, after all.
December 12th, 2005 at 4:38 pm
let the shoot fest begin!
hopefully all home and store owners will be well armed.
December 12th, 2005 at 4:56 pm
Tookie Williams Seeks Stay of Execution
A lawyer for convicted murderer Stanley Tookie Williams asked the state Supreme Court to stay his ex
December 12th, 2005 at 5:14 pm
perhaps I should pick up a gun before going home to Oakland tonight?
December 12th, 2005 at 5:25 pm
Are You There God? It’s Me Tookie.
Twas the night before execution And right on Death Row Little Tookie had insomnia He knew he was next to go. I’m innocent! I swear! Was Tookie’s recurrent claim (100% of inmates polled said the same). He’d just about finished
December 12th, 2005 at 5:53 pm
Clemency Denied
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has denied clemency for Stanley “Tookie” Williams.
“Is Williams’ redemption complete and sincere, or is it just a hollow promise?” Schwarzenegger wrote less than 12 hours before the execution. “Wit…
December 12th, 2005 at 6:00 pm
Sweet, I haven’t had a new TV since 1992.
Is a song called for?
Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye….
December 12th, 2005 at 9:29 pm
The only real remaining question is WHO WILL BE THIS YEAR’S REGINALD DENNY?
December 12th, 2005 at 9:47 pm
For Whom the Bell Tolls: It Tolls For Tookie
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger refused to stay the execution of Stanley Tookie Williams, co-founder of the Crips gang. Williams was on death row for the cold-blooded murder of four people. When asked about his feelings concerning Tookie’s impen…
December 12th, 2005 at 10:23 pm
When they put down the animal tonight, what are the crips going to do??? Go on a killing spree?
December 12th, 2005 at 10:56 pm
The Oh Tookie Chorus
Following up to this, this, and this, oh, and this….
December 12th, 2005 at 10:57 pm
Hey folks, just remember… The Hoodlums will be rioting in ‘da ‘hood, just like in ’92. It’s the urban version of extreme home makeover. I hope the golden chillins at The University of Spoiled Chillins (USC) are ready for 72 hour lockdown. ‘Cuz dey be livin’ in ‘da middle of all ‘dat. Stay away from Florence Blvd & Normandy Ave. and Olympic Blvd. & Figueroa Street.
December 12th, 2005 at 11:31 pm
Oh, Tookie!
[Serious part of this post starts here] I’m for the death penalty, even when death row inmates turn their life around or change their life to do good and so on. Key word in both of those phrases? LIFE. Do
December 12th, 2005 at 11:37 pm
Dude, where are you? I got the popcorn, beer, & broads
December 13th, 2005 at 12:05 am
PileOn’s coming, it’ll be a GAS
December 13th, 2005 at 12:18 am
I’m gonna miss Tookie, sniff. And I need some target practice so Tookie’s passing has may have unexpected rewards.
December 13th, 2005 at 1:54 am
One protestor’s sign reads, “Save Tookie – International SOCIALIST Organization”
… Pathetic …
December 13th, 2005 at 3:14 am
No race riots yet, but the night is young
Making D&M clips right now. Less than ten minutes until they execute a killer. Ha ha.
December 13th, 2005 at 3:57 am
Many happy returns from California, where we have just executed a criminal!
December 13th, 2005 at 4:43 am
Whoopi,,,,Tookie has tossed his cookies. I sit here watching the stupidity on TV. It sickens me. Oh the inhumanity. It took 13 minutes to find a vein. Thats cause he was scared. The vein was shrunk. Kinda like gettin out of an ice cold swimmin pool. Brings about a whole new kids game, TRY TO FIND THE VEIN. Wow. 13 minutes. How long did it take for Tookie to surgically aim the shotgun to blow a womans face off. And to hit a guy dead center in the back from an amazing distance of 3 inches (reportedly the same length of his bodybuilding dick,, guess he used that for an aiming aid). Back to the 13 minutes crap. That gave him yet another 13 minutes beyond the quarter of a fucking century he already had to make his peace with God (hey life is precious right,,rejoice in every second of it). Speaking of God, I hope he has special plans for Tookie. I think a good one would be if when Tookie went before the Man one of the many punishments would be he would be one of the 40 virgins waitin for the dumbass islamofacist suicide bombers. Picture it. Blow yourself up for your cause and bingo,,,40 Tookies just waitin for you to go at it with em. Talk about justice on both ends (punice entended). Thank God I live in a state where not only do we have the death penalty,,,we fuckin use it. The stupid white supremist bastards that drug a man down the road not only got the death penalty,,,,,they have long been asuming room temperature. And that was only back about 9 years ago. Fuck lettin people die of old age on death row. Do it and do it ASAP. That is the deterant. Not 24 years later. And guess what. Tookie was innocent. They now have multiple witnesses. Geeeeeeeeez, funny how the all show up on the day he’s gonna die. Where the fuck have these symbols of virtue been for the last quarter fucking century. Fuck em. Let em testify and then incarcerate their dumb asses for perjury.
Just my short opinion,,,,,trust me you don’t even fuckin want the long version.
KLH
December 13th, 2005 at 7:54 am
Tookie Williams refused any food for his last meal.
December 13th, 2005 at 8:37 am
I suppose that’s another reason we should laud Tookie as a national treasure.
I’m sure that Tookie has eaten something over the last day or two that would be considered food. It may not have been called a “last meal,” but at some point, he had a last meal.
But I’m glad you corrected that horrific error in my post. It really helps clarify the bottom line. Thank you.
December 13th, 2005 at 9:23 am
He looks like he missed a lot meals over his 24 years of incarceration, doesn’t he?
Meanwhile, Scott Peterson is enjoying his first cupcake that hasn’t been torn from his paw in almost a year.
December 13th, 2005 at 12:31 pm
Justice has been served. For Tookie, judgement day is here.
December 13th, 2005 at 1:00 pm
The article says that the tookster became an “outspoken” critic of gang violence. Well pardon my ignorance because until they announced his pending dirt nap I didn’t even know that the piece of crap existed. My guess would be that his critisism wasn’t all that.
December 13th, 2005 at 9:06 pm
[...] Many bloggers seem not to miss Tookie at all. Aaron is trying to make a buck off Tookie being killed. The Confederate Yankee notes that (the now ex-) Tookie didn’t have good veins. Steve has seen the galley-proofs of Tookie’s new book. Right Wing Duck has some ideas on how Tookie can still benefit his fellow men. Margi writes a thoughtful obit for Tookie. The Maximum Leader asks if he can reassign Tookie’s nickname. Dan has a link dump that is worthy of a read and many clicks. (And he talks about some other Pajama blogging group I’ve never heard of…) Preston Taylor Holmes quotes Mrs. Holmes’ brilliant observation about the Governator. And go visit Vince Aut Morire for a Tookie song fest. [...]