Save Stan "Tookie" Williams - Fight the December 13, 2005 Execution

November 23, 2005: Stan Tookie Williams is scheduled to be executed on December 13, 2005. He has been in prison for more than 26 consecutive years, 24 of them on death row. As the co-founder of the notorious Los Angeles gang "The Crips," he was arrested in 1979, accused of four counts of murder and sentenced to death on the basis of extremely questionable evidence. Coming from an overwhelmingly black ghetto in South Central, he was convicted by an all-white jury after the prosecution succeeded in purging the already thoroughly bleached suburb jury pool from the last three remaining African American jurors (out of a pool of 300). In prison, Williams has parted company with the Crips and has been doing immensely successful anti-gang and anti-violence work for more than a decade now. He has written nine children's books that warn against the dangers of a "gangsta" lifestyle and has authored an autobiography called "Blue Rage, Black Redemption." His life was subject of the 2004 film "Grapes of Wrath - Redemption" starring Jamie Foxx. Stan "Tookie" Williams' regular legal appeals are exhausted after the United States Supreme Court has refused to hear his case, even though his lawyers have filed an emergency petition to a California Superior Court in November. Being granted clemency by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on account of his good work for peace and severe doubts about his guilt is Williams' one remaining realistic chance. A worldwide movement has sprung into action to achieve this. The clock is ticking. Stay posted and visit Tookie's own website, www.tookie.com. There, you can sign an online petition to Governor Schwarzenegger that allows you to comment on why you want clemency for Stan.