Stanley Tookie Williams, whose self-described evolution from gang thug to antiviolence crusader won him an international following and nominations for a Nobel Peace Prize, was executed by lethal ...

It took 36 agonizing minutes to get to the defining moment of Stanley Tookie Williams' execution by lethal injection early Tuesday, and when it came it shot through the stuffy, crowded witness ...

Dec. 8, 2005 — -- Stanley "Tookie" Williams' fight for clemency is a battle between his polar opposite legacies: the co-founder of the notorious Crips gang versus the Nobel Prize-nominated ...

At one minute past midnight, convicted killer Stanley "Tookie" Williams will be executed at California's San Quentin Prison. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today denied his clemency request.

December 13, 2005 • Stanley Tookie Williams, a co-founder of the Crips gang, dies by lethal injection at San Quentin prison, where spent the last 25 years of his life. Supporters said the ...

If Stanley Tookie Williams is executed on Tuesday shortly after midnight for four 1979 murders, his legions of supporters will say the state has killed an innocent man. If Williams is spared ...

If Stanley Tookie Williams has had such a big impact with his antiviolence message from death row, as his supporters would have us believe, then why are the streets so violent and the jails so ...

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. – Convicted killer Stanley Tookie Williams, the Crips gang co-founder whose case stirred a national debate about capital punishment versus the possibility of redemption ...

Editor's note: On Nov. 28, MSNBC's Rita Cosby talked with Stanley 'Tookie' Williams in an exclusive interview for her 'Live and Direct' program. She is scheduled to be a witness to his execution ...

Stanley Tookie Williams, the gang founder and convicted murderer who claims innocence, convinced over 50,000 people to sign petitions asking that he not be executed. But in the end, neither the ...