12/3 ** URGENT**10 Days to STOP the EXECUTION! Clemency=Life w/out Parole

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STAN TOOKIE WILLIAMS' CLEMENCY WOULD BE LIFE
W/O PAROLE, NOT FREEDOM!!!

I strongly urge DUers to

Posted by H2O Man on Tue Nov-29-05 11:47 AM

take the time to contact the governor and ask him to spare this man's life. There are a number of reasons, all of which are valid, for people doing this. It can be rooted in opposition to the death penalty; concerns about the racial overtones of the case; as well as the possibility that the man is innocent of the charges.

It seems that some DUers insist upon trying to derail the thread, and get it mired in an hostile debate about gang violence, and the hatred and fear that have infected America's soul. One person responded to the request that this thread be allowed to stay focused on saving his life, by saying DU is about debate, and that there should be room for differences of opinion. There is room for such differences: threads debating the value of capital punishment; the role of racism in the legal system; the frequency of innocent people being convicted; the dangers of gangs; and the pain of being victimized by violent thugs -- these are all potentially good.

But DU should also be about respecting others' opinions. It should include having personal boundries, where you don't feel free to try to insult other peoples' values. It should include respecting other peoples' efforts to organize fellow DUers in an effort they feel is important.

There is plenty of room for differences of opinion on DU. There is good reason for mutual respect for even those who disagree on things you feel strongly about.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5464497#5474206

Previous thread:

12/2 *** URGENT*** 11 Days to STOP the EXECUTION!! PLEASE ACT!!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=5500542&mesg_id=5500542
(A vast amount of info throughout the thread)

Please consider contributing to the debate in this related
thread:
DEBATE: Stanley "Tookie" Williams: Redemption or Revenge?:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5509115

Please support the effort to save Stanley 'Tookie' Williams at
http://www.savetookie.org

Please sign the petition for clemency
http://www.petitiononline.com/stw4804/petition.html

Another petition
http://www.petitionthem.com/?sect=detail&pet=2240

To learn more about Tookie and his work on behalf of children
and families across the world, visit http://www.tookie.com

Please also call, email, and FAX Gov. Schwarzenegger:

Phone: [phone]

Email: [e-mail]

FAX: [phone]

snail mail address:
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
State Capitol Building
Sacramento, CA 95814


THE STANLEY 'TOOKIE' WILLIAMS CASE

Stanley 'Tookie' Williams' execution is scheduled for Dec. 13, one minute after midnight.

Tookie's conviction was based entirely on circumstantial evidence.

Tookie's conviction was filled w/racist tactics & based on
questionable circumstantial evidence & ‘witness’ testimony.
This casts serious doubt on whether Stan ‘Tookie’ Williams was
given a fair trial. It also questions whether he is guilty
beyond a reasonable doubt..

The prosecutor in the case was allowed to dismiss black jurors.

This prosecutor made numerous racist remarks during the
trial.

Police files were deliberately left in a paid informant's jail
cell to help prepare the informant w/details so that he could
testify that Tookie 'confessed' to him.

Fingerprints found at the scene were not his, bloody
footprints found at the scene were not his, etc.

At the time he started it, at the age of seventeen, the Crips numbered around thirty members, when he was convicted, still less than a thousand.

Tookie's work over the past decade has saved tens of thousands of kids from gang life. He can do far more good living than his death could ever accomplish.

Desmond Tutu, Mario Cuomo, Alfre Woodard, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, Danny Glover, Jesse Jackson, Bianca Jagger, Snoop Dogg (a fellow former Crip), Anjelica Huston, Tom Hayden, 100+ Nobel Laureates, peace & justice activists, the religious community, the anti-death penalty community, community activists, anti-gang activists and precious children and youths wanting to avoid/leave gang life, support Stanley Williams and urge the governor ro grant him clemency.


Laura Flanders (AAR) Nov. 26 interview w/Barbara Becnel,
Stan ‘Tookie’ Williams’ advocate:
http://www.airamericaplace.com/archive.php?mode=display...

DOAR Supports Tookie Williams Clemency Hearing (VIDEO):
http://www.doar.com /


Please contact Gov. Schwarzenegger for clemency!

Thank you!!!