DO we have no shame Mr. Schwarzenegger?
In dedication to Tookie….I am posting some of the tids and bits I am reading on him today as we mourn is killing at the hand of the ‘man’. No shame, no shame, and we continue on with our feeble minds to go along our day. Troubled to say the least... speechless at moments, outraged at others, sometimes confused or even helpless, and quiet in my heart as I raise my vibration to grant his soul the light to raise to the heavens. Rest in peace Tookie Williams, Rest in peace. May you find your peace away from this crazy human existence. But first know how you have impacted and changed the world via the avenues in which you have transformed and atoned your life here before you go. Rest in peace.
Stanley 'Tookie' Williams poses at age 29 in the exercise yard at San Quentin Prison, in this undated photo. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday refused to spare the life of Williams, the founder of the murderous Crips gang who awaited execution after midnight in a case that set off a debate over the possibility of redemption on death row. Schwarzenegger was unswayed by pleas from Hollywood stars and petitions from more than 50,000 people who said that Williams had made amends during more than two decades in prison by writing a memoir and children's books about the dangers of gangs.
The execution of Stanley Tookie Williams
Outside San Quentin prison Monday night, under the floodlights, death penalty opponents prayed, sang hymns and cursed the Terminator.
By Adam Shemper and Jonathan Stein - article reposted from Salon.com
Stanley Tookie Williams was executed by lethal injection at California's San Quentin prison early Tuesday morning. He was 51 years old.
Williams walked into the execution chamber, a semioctagonal room with a padded green gurney and flooded with pale white light. He lay down. Guards strapped him in. A guard kept a hand on Williams' shoulder. A nurse had difficulty finding a vein in his left arm. She accidentally drew blood. It took 12 minutes to prepare the IVs. Williams held his head up. He looked at the press -- 17 journalists in all. He looked at his loved ones -- five of them present -- and mouthed words that journalists couldn't hear or understand.
At 12:21 a.m., the first drug, five grams of sodium pentothal to make Williams unconscious, was pumped into his arm. That was soon followed by injections of 50 cc's of pancuronium bromide to stop his breathing and 50 cc's of potassium chloride to stop his heart. After a few minutes, Williams' stomach begin to spasm and contract. Soon he was not moving. The roomful of witnesses sat in silence looking at Williams' unmoving body. Three of his passionate supporters, including Barbara Becnel, a former Los Angeles Times reporter, cried out, "The state of California just killed an innocent man."