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Crip Founder Tookie Williams. Scheduled to die 12-13-05
S-D-Unit:
the govt. is all fuk up.. some ppl who are convicted of murder are free after few yrs. or they plea insanity or get 10yrs then they free.. or some other crap..
im not for the d.penalty..
the rapers..child molesters those are the 1 should be kill once they commit the crime before they go to court those ppl get a less of a sentence .
guy rapes a 10yr girl n few others get what 4yrs
guy shoots some1 who broke into their house and die gets life these are examples that happen over time
Trauma-san:
^ Yeah, but this guy doesn't fit either of those scenarios. This is a guy who murdered (at least) 4 people.
Seems like he's turned his life around and turned into a much bigger man than he was before all this mess.
You know, sometimes things just aren't fair, there's no solution to the problem. Sometimes small choices we make in our lives, with short term benefits give us long term repercussions... and you end up with shit that just isn't fair, but there's no answer to it.
For instance, a woman hooks up with the wrong guy one night, gets pregnant, and basically gets her life ruined because she has a kid. No matter how great of a person she turns into, and no matter how many good choices she makes from there on out, she's still in a bad place because of one little choice she made.
So maybe this guy is just one of the coolest people walking the planet right now, and maybe he's a better man, now, than you or I... but because of a few bad decisions he made years ago, he's going to be murdered by the government. That's not fair, but neither would the alternative be fair.
When someone kills someone, there's no justice to be had, period. You can't say it's not just to murder them, because it wouldn't be just no matter what you did. If you let this guy out of prison, what's that say for the 4 people he murdered? If you let the guy rot in prison, how is that any different? There isn't a right choice in this situation, and the law believes that murdering people for some offenses is a deterrant to others. So that's what's going to happen.
js83:
I say just let the guy live and give him life...
Trauma-san:
Here's what I would do. If it was up to me, which it isn't. I'd murder him, as agreed in the court ruling 25 years ago. IF, however, he could get the immediate family members of all 4 people he murdered to plea for his life, I'd grant him a permanent waiver. If one family member wanted his head though, I'd do it.
Listen the only people this motherfucker matters to right now is himself, his family, and the families of the people he killed. He seems like a really good guy now, so I would give him the option of petitioning the immediate families of those 4 for mercy. By immediate family, I mean either the spouse, or the parent of the person he murdered. If he could get signed statements requesting his life spared, I'd do it.
It doesn't make a bit of difference to anybody else in the world whether he lives or dies, and of course we know his family wants him alive. The only people who have any right to overturn or request the judge's ruling of the death penalty to be overturned are him (which I'm sure he's appealed through the court system, and been denied), and the families involved.
His freedom is out of the question, because that would make it the business of the people of California, or the people of the world whether or not they wanted a killer walking amongst them. Locked up, though, it doesn't make any difference to the people of California if he stays locked up, or is murdered as agreed upon. He's already exhausted his requests for leniancy, so the only other option he has is for the people's families to plead for his life.
That's the only fair way I can see for him to get out of the death penalty. Even then it would take a personal appeal to the governor.
africas seed:
^^^great suggestion on a possible way for him to get a second chance at life
i just hope that he gets that second chance cuz we all deserve it.
i still remember this story from a black man in south africa who raped and murdered this gurl and i think was sentenced for life but the mother forgave the man and iunno how but he was released and now the two of them, the mother of the murdered gurl and the murderer, are doin like seminars and talks in schools and shit bout forgiveness, getttin a second chance at life and how blacks and whites can live together in the rainbow nation that is south africa.
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