The American Culture Of Death Strikes Again.
Despite a world-wide call for his clemency, Republican Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger decided to execute Stanley Tookie Williams earlier this morning. At 12:01 a.m. PST, Williams was executed by lethal injection, for a crime that he said he never committed.
Schwarzenegger, under pressure from the GOP, decided to carry out the execution, despite that a material witness had come forward, swearing to an affadavit that he had heard an inmate claim that he was going to frame Williams on murder charges, in order to receive a reduced sentence offered to him by the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Office.
Williams had been one of the founders of the Crips street gang in Los Angeles, but from behind bars managed to arrange a truce from the rival street gang the Bloods. A prolific author, William’s work lead him to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
The United States stands as the only industrialized nation in the world that executes its citizens.
Schwarzenegger, under pressure from the GOP, decided to carry out the execution, despite that a material witness had come forward, swearing to an affadavit that he had heard an inmate claim that he was going to frame Williams on murder charges, in order to receive a reduced sentence offered to him by the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Office.
Williams had been one of the founders of the Crips street gang in Los Angeles, but from behind bars managed to arrange a truce from the rival street gang the Bloods. A prolific author, William’s work lead him to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
The United States stands as the only industrialized nation in the world that executes its citizens.
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