- Tookie's Corner
Co-founder of the Crips gang, Stanley "Tookie" Williams, apologizes from San Quentin's death row. He has written a series of books to teach children about the dangers of gang violence. Tookie was executed on December 13, 2005.
www.tookie.com
- Save Tookie
Petition to save Stanley "Tookie" Williams who was executed in San Quentin on December 13, 2005. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger denied his clemency on December 12, 2005. Includes information about the Crips founder's case, his rehabilitation, and audio of Snoop Dogg talking about Tookie at San Quentin.
www.savetookie.org
- Wikipedia: Stanley Williams
User-created overview of the life of Stanley "Tookie" Williams, who founded the Los Angeles Crips street gang and was executed on December 13, 2005.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Williams
- NPR: Crips Founder Seeks 'Redemption' on Death Row
Listen to an extended interview with Stanley "Tookie" Williams, a death row inmate in San Quentin, who was executed on December 13, 2005, at 12:01 a.m. Includes audio clips of Tookie apologizing for creating the Crips street gang as well as two of his anti-gang public service announcements.
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4608950
- BBC: Death Row Killer's Redemption Song
July 30, 2005, news article detailing the life of Stanley "Tookie" Williams, a convicted killer and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, who was executed in California on December 13, 2005.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3070463.stm
- SFGate.com: High Court Says Execute Crips Founder
October 12, 2005, article gives an overview of the clemency case -- which was denied -- of death row inmate Stanley "Tookie" Williams. He founded the Crips street gang, but while in San Quentin, his children's books and his work advocating against youth gang violence has won him Nobel Prize for literature and Nobel Peace Prize nominations.
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/10/11/state/n144421D51.DTL&f...
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