Condemned murderer Stanley Tookie Williams, an ex-gang leader who became an anti-gang crusader in prison, is a "cold-blooded killer'' who disavows "any responsibility for the brutal, destructive and murderous acts he committed'' and deserves to be executed Dec. 13, Los Angeles prosecutors said Thursday.
Williams and his defenders say he is not the man he was when he was arrested for four killings in the Los Angeles area in 1979, and they are hoping that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will commute his sentence to life without parole.
Time for the Terminator to live up to his name.
Williams has written nine books for children and youths since 1993, has taped anti-violence messages and has drafted a peace treaty that his attorney say has been used to settle gang wars. He has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize each year since 2000, initially by a member of the Swiss Parliament and more recently by a Bay Area philosophy professor. His attorneys say 30,000 people have signed an online clemency petition.
The Nobel prize? I suppose ever since Arafat got the bleeding thing, any old thug can throw down for it.
Prosecutors are unimpressed.
"Stanley Williams does not deserve your sympathy, leniency or mercy," lawyers from Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley's office told Schwarzenegger. The governor may schedule a clemency hearing after Williams' attorneys file their reply Monday. Williams, 51, co-founder of the Crips street gang in Los Angeles as a teenager, was convicted of murdering four people in two 1979 robberies. He denies his guilt and has asked the state Supreme Court to give his attorneys access to evidence that he says would show he was wrongly convicted.
"I wuz framed, I tells yez!"
His chief argument for clemency, in papers submitted last week, is that his life is worth saving because of the thousands of youths he has helped as an author and anti-gang advocate from prison. In Thursday's filing, however, prosecutors noted that Williams had refused to cooperate with San Quentin state prison's "debriefing" program, in which current and former gang members provide information about gang operations.
If this sonofabitch is so anti-gang, why isn't he helping to dismantle his little brainchild?
In a "60 Minutes" television interview last year, Williams said "debriefing" was "a euphemistic term for snitching."
If you really have renounced the thug life, helping identify those who continue to rob, rape and steal isn't snitching, it's called "fighting crime." Quite obviously something Williams really isn't too interested in doing after all.
Williams' refusal has deprived authorities of potential insights into the Crips and shows that he "remains loyal to the gang member street code of ethics ... despite his hollow claims of atonement," prosecutors said. Jonathan Harris, an attorney for Williams, countered that the prosecutors were demanding that Williams "prove to us you're redeemed by becoming our snitch." The district attorney's filing, Harris said, "does not challenge our fundamental point that Stanley Williams' work has enormous positive impact on at-risk youth."
What about the enormous NEGATIVE impact this sh!t's unrepented thuggery has had on thousands of crime victims?
Most of prosecutors' 57-page submission was devoted to evidence of Williams' guilt of the shotgun murders of a Whittier convenience store clerk and the owners of a Los Angeles motel and their daughter in robberies two weeks apart. Williams says his conviction was the product of unreliable testimony from accomplices, a jailhouse informer and others vulnerable to prosecution pressure, and of racist tactics by the prosecutor in jury selection and closing arguments.
"Racist tactics". How did I know that the good old race card would be played? Johhny Cochran is smiling from his grave.
But prosecutors said Thursday that the evidence of Williams' guilt was overwhelming, including admissions he made to a couple he lived with, and that Williams had threatened jurors after their verdict and plotted a violent jailbreak.
The needle is too good for this turd. Surely San Quentin didn't tear out their old gas chamber? Start off with a half dose of cyanide and repeat it a few times. Maybe drop in an Alka-Seltzer to begin with just to watch him squirm for a while.
