SACRAMENTO - Politics and history will not be on Stanley Tookie Williams' side Thursday when supporters of the founder of the murderous Crips gang ask Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to spare his life ...

Los Angeles - California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger denied clemency on Monday for Stanley "Tookie" Williams, a gang leader turned anti-violence campaigner, hours before his scheduled execution.

SAN QUENTIN (CBS13) — One of the last men to be executed in California was the notorious leader of the Crips gang, Stanley "Tookie" Williams in 2005. As a randomly chosen media witness ...

and ignoring the death sentence of gang leader Stanley “Tookie” Williams. Williams died of lethal injection in 2005 despite campaigns to urge Schwarzenegger to grant clemency. One of ...

Stanley “Tookie' Williams, the former L.A. gang leader who sparked an international anti'“death penalty campaign, was executed by lethal injection this week, after California Gov.

The adult son of Stanley Tookie Williams III — a convicted killer who, to some, became a model of redemption before he was executed in 2005 — told the congregation of a Seaside church Saturday ...

Describing this tribute as a documentary is not entirely accurate, given that the film is essentially a stationary shot of various eulogies at Tookie's ... with the DVD is Stanley's historic ...

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 ...

The son of Stanley Tookie Williams is contesting his father’s will, claiming it was signed two days before his execution at San Quentin State Prison and its beneficiary probably had a hand in ...

high-profile support of convicted killer Stanley “Tookie” Williams. As California executed Williams last month for the murders of four people in 1979, Gordon’s activism thrust the NAACP into ...

LOS ANGELES – Celebrities, religious leaders and a throng including gang members overflowed a church Tuesday for the funeral of Stanley Tookie Williams III, the convicted multiple murderer and ...