Executing a multi-murderer is "immoral" but aborting an innocent, unborn baby is not? I make my offer again. Conservatives will drop their pro-death penalty stance and stop executing about 58 murderers a year if liberals will drop their pro-abortion stance and stop executing 1.5 million innocent, unborn babies a year. Where are the celebrity fund raisers for the babies??? If Tookie weren't being executed for the murders of four people, he should die for all the lives his gang, the Crips, have touched and changed.SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 4 (AFP) - Actor Danny Glover took to the stage in a packed San Francisco theater on Sunday to urge celebrity governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to spare a condemned gang founder turned anti-gang advocate. Schwarzenegger is the only person with the power to cancel the date convicted killer and Crips gang co-founder Stanley "Tookie" Williams has with San Quentin Prison's death chamber on December 13.
Glover drew cheers and a standing ovation from the standing-room-only audience that showed up for an anti-execution fund-raising screening of the film "Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story."
"I think there is a chance Arnold Schwarzenegger will grant clemency," Glover told AFP. "He should grant Tookie Williams clemency; that will let Williams touch lives and change lives."
Glover derided the death penalty as "immoral" and out of tune with most of the civilized nations in the world.
Stern lectures for the logically-challenged. Others have opinions, I have convictions.
Monday, December 05, 2005
Spare the Evil, Execute the Innocent
These people are really twisted.
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This story reminds me of the case of Karla faye Tucker. She converted to Christianity while on death row in Texas.
Some evangelical leaders sought to get her sentence commuted, too, but she herself accepted her execution, calling it just punishment for what she had done.
The difference in these two cases is that she showed remorse and he has not. He still refuses to admit his crime.
If Karla Faye's execution was considered just, how much more so is Williams?
I say fry him.
It's totally crazy, while I can understand that some people are against death sentences, why would anyone rally to spare a proven murderer.
I remember Karla Faye Tucker. If ever there was a genuine jail house conversion it was hers. I wanted clemency for her, but knew she wouldn't get it. Though she deserved her punishment, clemency would not have been unwarranted in her case. Not so with Tookie.
I fully expect to meet Ms. Tucker in heaven.
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