Stanley "Tookie" Williams
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Stanley "Tookie" Williams (December 29th, 1953 - December 13th, 2005). He was one of the founders of the famous American street gang of the Crips.
He was sentenced to death in 1981 for the murder of four people (two white women and an Asian family in a store) in 1979. While incarcerated, Williams was anti-violent and wrote a children's book. However, he did not cooperate with the investigation of his gang and was involved in assault attempts and prison break. He claimed innocence until the death penalty in 2005. He is the twelfth executioner in California since the death penalty in 1977.
At the age of 17, he created a representative gang in the Los Angeles area called Cripps, and an act of assault with death row inmates was carried out in solitary confinement, awaiting death. He was selected as a candidate for the Nobel Prize for five consecutive years against violence, but on December 13, 2005, at 0:01, California, he was executed on a death bed in front of observers and executed by poison injection. Visitors were said to be very calm and quiet. This was California's twelfth execution.
The popular rapper Snoop Dogg developed a personal hatred against schwarzenegger for not saving Williams' life, since the rap singer took a lot of affection for him.
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Williams is one of 21 individuals chosen to be executed by the state of California, as no one is currently being executed in that state.