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Article: Tookie v Arnold; The death penalty.(Death row)(Stanley Williams)(Arnold Schwarzenegger)
- Article from:
- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- December 17, 2005
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How he arrived
A tussle where one man died, but neither won
IN THE end, Arnold Schwarzenegger was unmoved by the pleas of his Hollywood friends, of the Rev Jesse Jackson, of Snoop Dogg, of Bianca Jagger and all the other luminaries begging him to spare the life of Stanley "Tookie" Williams, the 51-year-old co-founder of the Los Angeles street-gang known as the Crips. "Is Williams's redemption complete and sincere," mused California's governor, "or is it just a hollow promise?"
Answering his own question, Mr Schwarzenegger argued that there could be no possibility of clemency unless Mr Williams were first to apologise for the murder of four ...