Lets all raise a glass to Tookie.

[meetthecreeper]

Lets all raise a glass to a man whos redemption came about after writing childrens books on toilet paper.

What a pillar of the community.

RIH Tookie

and in the Grand scheme of things....

[Zero]

god i'm on a liberal rant today . . . but, i think the death penalty is total bs and tookie should not have been executed


now i'm going out and save some baby whales for jesus, or something

[newb]

In the immortal words of Queen


Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
And another one gone, and another one gone
Another one bites the dust
Hey, I’m gonna get you too
Another one bites the dust

[newb]

I'm pretty liberal myself but i just can't feel bad in this case.



On February 28, 1979, about 4 a.m., Williams and three friends got high and took two cars, a 12-gauge shotgun and a .22-caliber handgun to Pomona in search of a place to rob, according to court documents. They ended up at a 7-Eleven where Albert Owens, 26, was working the overnight shift, sweeping the parking lot.

The military veteran was a "redheaded, freckle-faced kid who had the biggest smile you wanted to see," according to his older brother, Wayne Owens, 55, of Olathe, Kansas.

Albert Owens said, "Take everything you want," says the now-retired prosecutor, Robert Martin, who remembers the case in detail.

Williams ordered Owens into a back room at gunpoint, shot out a security monitor, then ordered, "Get down on your knees, (expletive)," and shot him twice in the back, according to testimony. Williams "later laughed about it as he was eating his hamburger," Martin says.


Less than two weeks later, on March 11, Williams broke down the door at the Brookhaven Motel, ripping through four locks and shattering the molding, according to a prosecutor.

Killed were Yen-I Yang, 76; his wife, Tsai-Shai Yang, 63, and their visiting daughter, Yee-Chen Lin, 43. The Taiwanese immigrants were about to sell the business because the neighborhood had become too rough, Martin said.

[_Leatha_Face_]

**CHEERS**

[The STE]

In principle I'm for the death penalty, but in practice I'm not. Someone killed 3 people with a phillips head screwdriver, sure, take a phillips head screwdriver and kill him back. But the system with which we determine whether or not that person killed the people with the screwdriver is crap (see: Paradise Lost).

[Yellow Jacket]

I'm probably going to get smacked for this one, but who the fuck is Tookie?!

[stubbornforgey]

now thats justice for you..!!!

bring back the death penalty ..worldwide.
raise my glass to that fucker and all like him..
i would rather smash it across his face.

It pisses me off to the limit how the offenders over here get away with shit like this because theres no resonable source of punishment..a few years behind bars..
whoopee shit..!!
time off for good behaviour..
while the victims live a full life of terror and pain.
rot in hell you bastards..

[novakru]

Since I do not know the entire story ,and wouldn't ,even if 'versions' of the story were told to me, I cannot say whether or not he was guilty.
He claims he never killed,the court system said he did.
I am not going to take either side.

My opinion is that he shouldn't have died,but if guilty-stayed behind bars for the rest of his life.If you kill,you deserve to never have a life.Period.

My idea of Justice is: put them away,let them live the rest of their life with nothing except a small room,a bed,toilet and food pushed under the door.No TV,No books,No internet,No human contact whatsoever.Not even a window.
My idea of Justice is also being 100% sure they are the perpetrators.There can be no doubt.
I would hate a innocent,truly innocent person to suffer like that.
And let's face it,the judicial system fails more often than not,and the vitcims are the ones who pay-yet again.

I don't agree with the death penalty,but understand why ppl do.

[pinkfloyd45769]

Well, i look at the situation like this, an eye for an eye and the whole world will be blind.