Stanley Williams

Stanley Tookie Williams (born the December 29th 1953 with La Nouvelle-Orléans, carried out the December 13rd 2005 with the penitentiary of Saint-Quentin) was the founder, at the side of Raymond Washington, of the gang of the Crips.

Biography

Condemned for murder, it had become later militant commando in the Couloir of dead the. Its execution took place the December 13rd 2005 with 0:35 (local time), after the rejection its demand day before for grace near the governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and that the Supreme courts of the the United States and California had both rejected its Appel S of last minute.

Williams was shown, accused and recognized guilty for the murder of Albert Owens, Tsai-Shai Yang, Yang Yen-I, and Yee Chen Lin in 1979 during two burglings. Although having always protested its innocence in these assassinations, and having been accused following testimonys of other people having taken part in these facts, but profiting from reduced sentences and having avoided the capital punishment in exchange of a testimony in discredit of Williams, he was condemned to the capital punishment in 1981. He militated as of the years 1990 for the Non-violence and the Paix since his cell. It is a true work on him even as " Tookie" carried out in its cell in insulation during nearly 6 years, in its prison with a long training on the human values and philosophical. He learned the holy Latin and texts. Williams concludes from it that to stop this fatal madness which prevailed in the American ghettos, they was the children whom it was necessary to educate in the non-violence and the respect of the human values as of their more young age. Tookie having been involved in a pitiless violence as of the 9 years age. Consequently it dedicated its life with: " to prevent that others do not fall ici". And it started to write a series of books for children. The work of Tookie was noticed all around planet and its books translated in tens of languages. Tookie even having been named for the Nobel Prize of peace and noticed by eminent personalities such as Winnie Mandela the woman of Nelson Mandela which visited him and congratulated it for its work. Mr. Williams succeeds even thanks to a video recording recorded since his prison to make found a truce between the two most powerful gangs of Los Angeles: Crips and Bloods, putting fine at one decade violence having resulted in the death of 10.000 young people in the area of Los Angeles.

Williams was carried out by intravenous Injection lethal with the prison of State of Saint-Quentin in California.

Its execution started a sharp controversy with the the United States. It was supported by part of the American black community and many celebrities, of which the singer Snoop Dogg and the Reverend Jesse Jackson.

One of its last wills was that no riot is started in reaction to its execution.

Its ashes will be dispersed in South Africa.

Williams it twelfth is carried out in California since the re-establishment of the Capital punishment in this state in 1977, and the 1003è with the the United States since 1976 when it was again authorized by the Supreme court. RIP

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