Prison Officials Doubt Killer's Redemption

[Judi Lynn]

Prison Officials Doubt Killer's Redemption

By KIM CURTIS
Associated Press Writer

November 17, 2005, 1:52 PM EST

QUENTIN, Calif. -- As murderer and Crips co-founder Stanley Tookie Williams tries to stave off execution next month, California prison officials have launched an unusual counterattack against the notion that he has redeemed himself behind bars.

The Corrections Department earlier this month posted a press release on its Web site about the upcoming execution, detailing Williams' crimes and asserting that he has been a gang leader while on death row at San Quentin Prison.

San Quentin spokesman Vernell Crittendon, speaking on behalf of the department, went further in an interview last week, saying he suspects Williams is orchestrating gangland crimes from his cell.

"I just don't know that his heart is changed," Crittendon said.
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http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-gang-founder-execution,0,6473688.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines



Maybe Pat Robertson could be brought in to help save this guy. Pat's surely an expert.

[gratuitous]

1. Have Chimpy peer into his soul

He seems to do that a lot, and with Bush's track record of trust in folks the likes of Ahmad Chalabi, the bin Laden family, and Vladimir Putin, who's to dispute his all-knowing gaze into the ether of someone else's soul?

[Judi Lynn]

2. There ya go! Let's get the Dubster involved.

All seeing eyes!

[Tace]

3. Tookie Williams Brokered A Truce Between The Bloods And Crips

That's what he was doing from his cell. He said the internecine violence was wrong. That's the kind of power he has, and why authorities are frightened of him.

[htuttle]

4. Yup

"Can you dig it?"

Weird. Just had a line from a old movie echo through my head...

[tkmorris]

5. Well, they shot Cyrus ya know

Why? "No reason. I just like doing stuff like that".