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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The Crips, the gang that condemned California inmate Stanley Tookie Williams helped to create, has survived — and has even gone international. Mike Pesca takes a look at the past, present and ...

A Marin judge Monday dismissed a claim by the son of Stanley Tookie Williams, indicating the convicted gang leader who was executed at San Quentin State Prison freely signed a will naming a friend ...

LOS ANGELES — Gene Hetzel is aware death-row inmate Stanley “Tookie” Williams has written books and been the subject of a movie. Hetzel even heard talk of a Nobel Prize nomination some years ...