Tookie Williams Died Today
A strong and angry black man
from a ghetto, rough and poor,
may have killed some people,
but nobody can be sure.
Shaky witness evidence
and racist LA cops,
got their desired sentence
and its politics that counts.
As Arnie weighed up carefully,
the votes in life and death,
redemption and a fight for peace
did not concern him much.
The rich and mighty governor
with ego twice as great,
led youths to terminate themselves
with steroid self abuse.
Williams led the young Crip thugs
to terrorise the streets,
but then preached non aggression
and saved countless kids from death.
When we come to weigh the balance
of lives taken and lives saved,
Tookie will be positive,
the Governator shamed.
It was the rich who made the ghetto
And the racists made the gangs.
The terminator killed by pride
now kills again for gain.
But never mind the rights of it.
Justice can go hang.
Tookie Williams died today
and Schwarzenegger reigns.
Stanley (Tookie) Williams was executed 2 years ago.
Authorities began the process to administer the lethal injection at 12:01 a.m. in the execution chamber at San Quentin. His death was announced 34 minutes later.
"He did seem frustrated that it didn't go as quickly as he thought it might," said San Quentin State Prison Warden Steven Ornoski.
Williams, 51, acknowledged a violent past but maintained he was innocent of the slayings. He became an anti-gang crusader while on death row.
Malcolm Saunders
Mon 26th Nov 2007 12:05
I don't disagree with anything you say Clarissa. The public must be protected from violent criminals. I would not necessarily believe Williams in his claims of innocence of the murders or his conversion to the promotion of peace, but I am sure that killing him will not have helped anything.
I also think that the decision to execute was a cynical piece of politicking.
I don't claim to have solutions to these appalling situations. I just comment.