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Winnie joins ex-gang leader plea
South Africa's Winnie Mandela has appealed to the governor of California to halt the execution of reformed gang leader Stanley "Tookie" Williams. "If we forgave what was done Williams, 51, was sentenced to death in 1981 for the murder of four people. Co-founder of the notorious Los Angeles Crips street-gang, he denies committing the 1979 murders. Williams faces death by lethal injection on 13 December at San Quentin prison, north of San Francisco. While in jail, he has won praise for his anti-gang books, earning several Nobel Peace Prize nominations for his teachings. He has generated a public campaign calling for clemency. California's Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is expected to hold a clemency review on Thursday. At a news conference, Ms Mandela said that, in a recent visit she made to the US, Mr Schwarzenegger had refused to meet her because it conflicted with the law. Good on ya Arnie, she ain't worth your time. "I regret it very much that a man who has wined and dined with comrade Mandela in his home would react in this manner," she added. and Winnie, please tell us about YOUR current connection to "comrade Mandela." The anti-apartheid campaigner also said that if Williams was executed, she would follow through on his request that he Ms Mandela remains a controversial political figure in South Africa following her divorce from Nelson Mandela and convictions for kidnapping, Posted by: Besoeker 2005-12-08 |
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