Stanley "Tookie" Williams has been denied clemency.
There will come a time when the America to come, the America governed by our children's children, will look back at how desparately, how pathetically, this country held to the death penalty, even in the face of the most absurd miscarriages of justice, even during the execution of the very persons that proved that prison can work as an effective means of rehabilitation and retribution, even when holding on to the death penalty required an almost petulant and Herculean disregard for the morals of the world around us. That America will look on this one with disdain and shock, and most of all, sadness.
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"the execution of the very persons that proved that prison can work as an effective means of rehabilitation"
The capital punishment, of execution is not meant for rehabilitation of the convicted, the “Tookie Williams” that you saw and heard of was a farce, he had no substance, it was only in the last few years that he decided to attempt to clean up his evil ways. He never said that he was sorry for what he did, which SIX wittiness stated that he did do the crime, the leftist hip hop popular media along with its hypocritical pop-MLK wanna be's only showed you what they wanted you to see and hear, if you knew anything about the trial and what he was convicted of, then you to would want him to pay his dues. Its just to bad that it took more then 20 years to execute him, he lived 20 years longer then the people he killed in cold blood. Think about this, less then a month later another inmate will be executed in CA, and yet, nothing, no snoop-dog no media, how interesting…
Do you know the differences between the two? Look it up, educate yourself. The world, you say, The United States of American is The World!!
Posted by JRW | January 5, 2006 10:18 PM
Posted on January 5, 2006 22:18
The U.S. is the world? Are we the children, too? Are we the ones who who will make a brighter day, if we just start giving? You know, it occurs to me that there are choices were making, like the one where we're saving our own lives, but I think it's true that we could make a better day, just you and me, JRW.
Posted by Kenneth Rufo | January 6, 2006 7:38 AM
Posted on January 6, 2006 07:38