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Bye Bye Tookie
"Jonathan Ganz" wrote in message ... In article , Donal wrote: "Jonathan Ganz" wrote in message ... In article , Bart Senior .@. wrote: The Terminator is living up to his name. Bye Bye Tookie. This is long overdue. http://www.wbir.com/news/news.aspx?storyid=30668 It is and it isn't. I'm opposed to the DP, but I'm not that concerned about Williams. He certainly deserves it. I don't believe that he was guilty. Fortunately, you weren't on the jury or the appeals court. One of the cable/satellite news channels ran a piece on Tookie's life today. During his involvement with the Crips, the continuing war between them and the Bloods took over 20,000 lives, according to a researcher at UCLA's School of Law Enforcement (may not have that name quite right). While Tookie was convicted of four murders, it was estimated that he was directly or indirectly responsible for thousands of deaths, mostly young inner city black men between the ages of 12 and 22, plus an assortment of innocent bystanders. Not guilty, eh? If he'd been on the jury, Jon, he'd have seen the preponderance of evidence against Williams. That said, I'm not a fan of capital punishment and would like to see it eliminated. Max |