Tookie Williams' Crips and Execution

In Los Angeles, Stanley Tookie Williams co-founded the Crips and later, while in prison, wrote children's books and campaigned against gang violence, drawing multiple Nobel Peace Prize nominations. In 1987 a California jury convicted him of four murders and sentenced him to death. In December 2005, after Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger denied clemency, officials executed Williams by lethal injection at San Quentin.

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