- Making News: Execution Date Set for "Tookie" Williams
Convicted of four murders that occurred over two weeks in 1979, Stanley "Tookie" Williams appears to have lost all his appeals to the courts, and his execution date has been set for December 13. The reputed co-founder of the Crips has spent the past decade encouraging disadvantaged kids to stay out of gangs. Henry Weinstein of the LA Times has more on what's expected to be an unusually big battle over the death penalty in California.
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