He didnt deserve to die. He saved more lives than he took.
Isnt the prison system all about rehabilitating people so they come out as better people and better citizens. Stanley Williams went in as a monster but after he sought redemption and turned his life around he became a peacemaker. The prison system worked in the case of Tookie, they turned his life around and produced a man of god, peace, love and redemption.
He didnt have to do the things he did, he didnt have anything to loose. He didnt have to devote his time to teaching the kids of today to stay away from gang bagging and killing. He could have easily sat back and turned away from redemption but his strength as a person allowed him to see the light of a better path. Even when he knew he was going to die, he unselfishly thought about others and how to single handidly change a culture of voilence into a world of peace, a culture that the American government refused to acknoweledge. It takes a strong person to face death and still think about others, people who are on here critising Tookie I have a feeling couldnt do the same.
What did it prove killing a man that had served his time to making the world a better place. Keeping him alive would have allowed him to continue on his path of redemption, it would have allowed him to save more lives and teach more people about the better way.
Dont think that I'm saying the Death Penalty is wrong, what I am saying is that it was unnessercary. I beleive people should be sentenced to death when there is no hope for them and their is no sign that they will reform during there time in prison. Like I said the prison system was created to rehabilitate people who had lost there way. People like Dahmer, Bundy and Cacey deserved the Death Sentence because they were beyond rehabilitation, it was obvious that no matter how much time they spent in prison they were not going to conform into better people.
If we continue to kill men of peace then we will have no one left to teach us. I beleive that killing Stanley Williams was unjustified. Yes he killed those people but his redemption and his teachings saved more lives than anyone man could ever take.
Arnold Swartzeeneger or whomever it was that decided that Tookie would die in my opinion is against creating world peace. I'm not saying that Tookie was they only answer to world peace, but he was apart of they answer the world has been looking for for many years now.
Comments on this forum against Tookie for me hold no water and are unjustified. Because of Tookies teachings he has saved the lives of sons and daughters, grandsons and grandaughters of people allover the world, thats a remarakable thing and something only a few people can say they have accomplished. You never know his books and words could possibly save the life of your Son or Daughter.
What point was proved in killing Tookie, what point was proved in killing a man who dedicated his life to making the world a better place.
This is bigger than the deaths of the four people he killed. If he didnt kill them, they would have killed him. When your back is against a wall Im sure you would do the same thing. When you are brought up in a world that you know no different from, alot of you would do the same. He was caught up in a visious world and it took a man of courage and strenght to break free from it.
When you have saved the amount of lives he has saved and when you have changed a world culture and formed peace between enemys then you can say that he deserved to die, until then you have no justification to say it.
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F6Pilot
17 years ago
""Isnt the prison system all about rehabilitating people so they come out as better people and better citizens.""
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In the olden days it used to be, which is why they were called "penetentaries" (penetant = sorry for crimes they did, humble, and wanting to be better men).
For lesser offenders, prison can still be this way, although cuts in educational facilites and overcrowding make it hard. Serve time, learn job skills, come out a more producive member of society.
But when it comes to the worst of offenders, murderers, rapists and such, prison isn't seen as a machine by which society will rehabillitate the individual. It's seen as a toxic waste dump, or a quarrentine zone where the most socially malajusted individuals are locked up away from the day to day lives of the law abiding citizens. Prison for these people is the pit where they were spend the rest of their lives, so the rest of us don't have to deal with them.
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wordtourmother42
17 years ago
I am taiwanese and a relative of the taiwanese couple that was murdered in their own hotel. Although i am not a relative by blood but by marriage i did not personally know the elderly couple because i wasnt born yet. All i know is that every year i have to go to their grave site with my family and relatives to "by sun" which is to pray and burn incense for our dearly departed. The agony i see my family and relatives go thru makes me glad that i wasnt around when they were murdered, because of the anger i see in my uncles faces. Stanley williams might have rehabilitated for what he did, but he deserve whatever punishment the state of california gave him. He executed his victims and left them to rot. So what if he wrote a book about avoiding the gang life at the end of the day he founded the most dangerous gang and with his early influences he is still partially responsible for thousands of murders. I remembering watching something on tv with snoop dogg trying to protest against the execution of stanley williams and it just made me mad that someone who has an influence on children would go on tv to support a murderer. I know ppl wont believe that i am a member of the family or will think that my views on his death is inhumane, but in life we all have to suffer the consequences. Although some might find death an extreme consequences, if you kill someone you should be punished and no matter how much you have repented or how sorry you are you have to face the consequence. It just so happens stanley williams punishment was death. People should be glad that he died by lethal injection instead of taking a bullet in the abdomen and left to die. I appreciate his contribution to rehabilitate himself by writing books against gang violence, but in the end he had to face what he had coming. The families of victims will never be able to forget a murder in the family. In a sense Stanley has tainted mine and i am not even a blood relative.
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