Schwarzenegger Mulls Clemency for Williams

[Mongo the Mutterer]

DA's Pleading

For those who feel this thug Tookie:

a. is Innocent

b. should not be executed

please read this ... the LA county DA's pleading to the Governor.

Mr. Williams should have been executed long ago.

 

[Can'thavenuthingood]

Took over an hour to read the response to the petition for clemency. To think that this guy still lives is astounding.

He ought to be gut shot and fed to the pigs.

Vick

 

[The_Antibubba]

There are people who deserve to die. The guy they executed in SC-he murder his estranged wife, and his FIL in front of his children-he admitted it freely. No hope there. For the crime of starting The Crips a man should die, notwithstanding the murders; but in the years he's been in, he's worked to correct that mistake.

The question is not whether "Tookie" should be executed. The larger question is: Is there a role in our penal system for clemency? Can the condemned, who will never take a step outside prison ever again, be allowed to live out his natural span in an attempt to undo the harms he caused?

 

[Dannyboy]

Here's the best article I've read yet on this subject.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20380

 

[Mongo the Mutterer]

Is there a role in our penal system for clemency? Can the condemned, who will never take a step outside prison ever again, be allowed to live out his natural span in an attempt to undo the harms he caused?

You answered your own question with your first statement

There are people who deserve to die.

Yep, you are correct. In answer to the clemency statement, the answer is no. "in an attempt to undo the harms...". The people he EXECUTED are dead. You can't undo cold blooded murder. To undo the harm we kill the murderers, but unfortunately we can't do in the the painful way they killed their prey.

This waste of space needs to stop breathing the air the rest of us share.