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- NAME: Stanley Tookie Williams
- OCCUPATION: Murderer, Thief, Philanthropist
- BIRTH DATE: December 29, 1953
- DEATH DATE: December 13, 2005
- PLACE OF BIRTH: New Orleans, Louisiana
- PLACE OF DEATH: San Quentin, California
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Stanley Tookie Williams is best known for founding the Crips gang.
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That same year, Williams appealed again for a commuted death sentence. The appeals panel urged the judge to consider commuting Williams' death sentence to life behind bars, citing the former gang member's efforts toward anti-gang education. The appeal failed once again.
In 2004, Williams helped create the Tookie Protocol For Peace, a peace agreement for one of the deadliest and most infamous gang wars in the country between the Crips and their rival,
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the Bloods. Williams received a letter from President George W. Bush commending him for his actions. That same year, his book Blue Rage, Black Redemption: A Memoir (2004) was published. The book was written with the intention to warn kids away from following Williams' life of crime. His story was also turned into a TV movie, Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story (2004), starring Jamie Foxx.
Execution
With his death sentence close at hand, Williams petitioned again for clemency in 2005. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger met with Williams to help decide whether the sentence should be commuted to life in prison. Williams' defenders and prosecutors each had 30 minutes to plead their case to the governor. After the meeting, Schwarzenegger denied Williams bid for clemency, citing the forensic evidence linking him to the killings in 1979. Despite protests from the NAACP and various supporters who turned out to fight the decision, Williams was executed by lethal injection on December 13, 2005, at San Quentin State Prison.
His co-author and spokeswoman, Barbara Cottman Becnel, says she will continue the fight to prove Williams' innocence.
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