Stanley "Tookie" Williams

Stanley, "Tookie" Williams should die for the murders of the Yang Family and also of a Albert Owens, a store clerk and veteran.

I believe in capital punishment. When the crimes one commits during ones life are truly irrepairable through rehabilitation, jail or redemption, I believe it is right to put those persons to death.

Stanley "Tookie" Williams, if he is what he says he is, one of the founders of the infamous Cryps gang of Los Angeles, Compton, and other urban areas, it is just for Angelenos to call for his removal from the are, and enventual death. Before I address the 4 people "Tookie" has been found guilty of murdering, I will address the larger impact of the Cryps.

The Cryps gang has murdered many other blacks in Los Angles. The Cryps (and later, their rivals, the Bloods, whose organization is modeled after the Cryps) have, since the 1970s, been the perpetrators of multiple, franchised crimes; rape, murder, larceny, theft, looting, assault, and organized crime unto the black/African-American and Latino groups in and around Los Angeles. Cryps have been largely successful in this, because they have been able to give an ideological franchise to people disenfranchised by the larger, majoritarian society. What is the franchise? "If you haven't got a proper family at home, the Cryps will be your family on the street." Just as any family member is expected to contribute time and resources, the Cryps ask of their membership to contribute in the form of "taxes" (payment to the gang for using a specific location in the gang territory to sell/traffic drugs) and manpower (usually, cooperation in gang crimes or to act as an accomplice).

For spreading this dangerous ideology alone, I call for Stanley "Tookie" Williams' death.

For murdering 4 innocent people, The Yang Family and Mr Owens, I call for Stanley "Tookie" WIlliams' death. Not one of the victims ever perpetrated any wrong or ill will unto "Tookie." They were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time when "Tookie" chose to go on his murderous rampage.

For those claiming "Tookie" has redeemed himself before God, and therefore must be spared the death penalty; I say, when God himself has spoken to the minds and hearts of men to confirm this fact, then we may stay the execution. Until such a time, I agree that this execution must push forward to end "Tookie's" life.