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California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger says he dreads having to decide whether ex-gang leader Stanley "Tookie" Williams lives or dies. Williams is a convicted murderer and co-founder of the Crips.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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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A Belmont professor will announce today his fifth nomination of death-row inmate Stanley "Tookie” Williams for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. Dr. Phil Gasper, chair of the philosophy and religion ...

Redemption tells the story of Stan "Tookie" Williams, founder of the Crips L.A. street gang. Story follows his fall into gang-banging, his prison term, and his work writing children's novels ...

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