No Mercy for Tookie

Ronald Bailey | December 12, 2005

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has denied the clemency petition for former Crips gang leader Stanley Tookie Williams.

Schwarzenegger:

After studying the evidence, searching the history, listening to the arguments and wrestling with the profound consequences, I could find no justification for granting clemency.

Unless a federal court intervenes, Williams will be executed shortly after midnight for murdering four people.