Convicted murderer and Crips gang co-founder Stanley Tookie Williams awaits the result of a last-minute plea for clemency before his scheduled execution next week. His fate is now in the hands of ...

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In 1979, the shooting deaths of four people during armed robberies hardly made the papers. Not much attention was paid when Stanley "Tookie" Williams was sentenced to death two years later. But the ...

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. (AP) - Twenty-six years after the killings and 24 years after his conviction, Stanley Tookie Williams has been executed in California.He was pronounced dead in the San Quentin ...

STANLEY Tookie Williams is a one-of-a-kind human asset who, if granted clemency, will continue to touch the lives of many young Americans, particularly from the African-American community. For this ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The argument over whether convicted killer Stanley Tookie Williams was a man of peace or a death-row con artist raged on after his execution Tuesday, with supporters announcing they ...

This week Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will decide whether the convicted murderer and co-founder of the Crips gang, Stanley “Tookie” Williams, lives or dies. But that’s all that should be decided.

Governor Schwarzenegger will hold a clemency hearing tomorrow. Williams denies he committed four brutal murders, but the legal appeals appear to have been exhausted for his convictions back in 1981.

LOS ANGELES - Celebrities from hip-hop star Snoop Dogg to motivational speaker Tony Robbins lamented the execution of Stanley "Tookie" Williams at a funeral Tuesday that drew hundreds to the ...

The Crips, the gang that condemned California inmate Stanley Tookie Williams helped to create, has survived -- and has even gone international.... Tookie Williams and the History of the Crips ...

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