quickdodgeŽ
10-24-2005, 04:02 PM
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger office will be the target of an international campaign for an moratorium on the death penalty.
A coalition of religious,civic,and community leaders will announce plans for an international campaign to seek clemency for California death row inmate Stanley "Tookie" Williams. Williams is a co-founder of the Crips street gang
but has been nominated from prison for an nobel peace prize warning young people about the dangers of gangs through his writings.
"Tookie" Williams -- the subject of a television movie called "Redemption" is an ideal candidate for clemency. Co-founder of the Crips gang in South Central Los Angeles at age 16, he renounced gangs after eight years on Death Row and wrote the first of nine books for young readers.
He has received tens of thousands of e-mails from youths, parents, teachers and even law enforcement officials from around the world, saying his writings had changed and saved lives. He was first nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2000 by a member of Switzerland's Parliament and has been renominated several times."Stated Rev Sharpton.
"We intend to turn the spotlight on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his power to spare a condemned murderer's life by granting clemency, a power last exercised in California by Gov. Ronald Reagan in 1967". Stated Najee Ali, California state chair of the National Action Network.(NAN)
I am kind of torn on this, not because I spent time Crippin, but looking at this as a regular dude. This dude did a lot of work to try to "undo" the damage he caused a few families. I don't mean undo as in bring back to life these people, but to try and sway people away from a gang lifestyle. I believe in the death penalty, but as I think about it, the one's that really deserve it are the ones that don't give a shit about what they've done or shown no remorse or just did their time. This dude wrote a number of books and nominated for Nobel Peace Prize for trying to take down what he started. To me, that's not too bad. Later, QD.
A coalition of religious,civic,and community leaders will announce plans for an international campaign to seek clemency for California death row inmate Stanley "Tookie" Williams. Williams is a co-founder of the Crips street gang
but has been nominated from prison for an nobel peace prize warning young people about the dangers of gangs through his writings.
"Tookie" Williams -- the subject of a television movie called "Redemption" is an ideal candidate for clemency. Co-founder of the Crips gang in South Central Los Angeles at age 16, he renounced gangs after eight years on Death Row and wrote the first of nine books for young readers.
He has received tens of thousands of e-mails from youths, parents, teachers and even law enforcement officials from around the world, saying his writings had changed and saved lives. He was first nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2000 by a member of Switzerland's Parliament and has been renominated several times."Stated Rev Sharpton.
"We intend to turn the spotlight on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his power to spare a condemned murderer's life by granting clemency, a power last exercised in California by Gov. Ronald Reagan in 1967". Stated Najee Ali, California state chair of the National Action Network.(NAN)
I am kind of torn on this, not because I spent time Crippin, but looking at this as a regular dude. This dude did a lot of work to try to "undo" the damage he caused a few families. I don't mean undo as in bring back to life these people, but to try and sway people away from a gang lifestyle. I believe in the death penalty, but as I think about it, the one's that really deserve it are the ones that don't give a shit about what they've done or shown no remorse or just did their time. This dude wrote a number of books and nominated for Nobel Peace Prize for trying to take down what he started. To me, that's not too bad. Later, QD.