Stanley "Tookie'' Williams
"Gang Founder Stanley Williams Executed in California (Update3)
Dec. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Stanley "Tookie'' Williams, a former gang leader and convicted murderer whose anti-crime advocacy from prison garnered praise, was executed by lethal injection after last-minute appeals were rejected...."
I don't have a problem with the someone being put to death for crimes they have committed...my problem lies with the legal system that administers the death penalty...a number of death penalty cases have been overturned because of faulty DNA or testimony...death penalty cases cost more than life imprisonments...my point is that system that delivers the death penalty is broken and until it can be fixed the death penalty should not be administered...
Do good works pardon a multiple murders? I think the person that commits multiple murders then turns their life towards doing good works should not look for pardon for those past transgressions....(in the late Johnnie Cochran prose) If you do the crime, you have to do the time....
posted by BigBuddhaPuppy at 12:20 PM
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I agree with you on this one. The system is flawed, and they (being the Government) had better be damned sure they have the right person. If they do, then I have no problem with capital punishment.
The Williams incident also exposes a flaw with the legal system in that many people view the prison system as a way to teach people a lesson.
In that sense, jail taught Williams a lesson, and he used it to help others. But will his death teach the right lesson or the wrong one?
Boy ... that was bleak, eh?
I agree...house of corrections it is not...if anything it worsens the situation...
His death will teach nothing, it will deter nothing...but maybe what he did with his life will...
Yep, bleak...
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