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Monday, December 12, 2005

justice

So it looks like it's over for Tookie. We're down to about 51 minutes to go as I write this and of course, the LA local news channels are all over the protests and whatnot surrounding Tookie's impending execution.

A prison official was going through the execution process with a reporter and she mentioned that right before the lethal injection is to be administered, Tookie would be asked if he had any last words.

For some reason this detail stuck with me. It made me think about how, almost unfairly, humane our executions are. I wonder, those who say that the death penalty makes our society "brutal" and "cruel," do they think about Tookie's victims, Albert Owens, Tsai-Shai Yang, Yen-I Yang and Ye-Chen Lin? They died horrific, bloody, BRUTAL AND CRUEL deaths, and I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume that Tookie didn't ask any of them if they had any last words before he shot them with his sawed off shot gun almost 25 years ago.

First he was tried by a jury of his peers (which was NOT an all-white jury as saint Tookie claims) and found guilty. Every single court has upheld the verdict, including THE most undeniably liberal court in the US. He has had every opportunity to "prove his innocence" and the problem is he can't because the evidence is against him because (drumroll please) HE'S GUILTY.

So now that we've established that this man is a brutal murderer, we punish him by? Offering him his choice of a last meal (which I know he rejected, but the point is it was offered and I don't think he extended Albert Owens or any of the members of the Yang family the same courtesy), asking him if he has any last words and then injecting him so that he will gently fall into a deep sleep from which he will never wake.

It almost seems too peaceful considering the way he murdered his victims.

It's too bad Tookie's supporters never even got the opportunity to hold a candle light vigil for "clemency" for Tookie's victims. The difference, of course, being that Tookie took it upon himself to play judge, jury and executioner.

At least tonight (29 minutes and counting) justice will at long last be served.

wingless was still breathing at 11:38 PM -

Comments:
Well, you will see a lot of praise for Oba Saint Stanley Tookie Williams the Redeemed Martyr. There's even a movement to erect a shrine to this great man.
 
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