God bless Arnold Schwarzenegger! Three big cheers for the Terminator who, by denying clemency to Stanley "Tookie" Williams, made it likely that this Predator will be terminated as scheluled tonight. The governor, in the face of a left wing onslaught and fears that rioting might occur in Los Angeles, did the right thing. Justice, twenty- some years overdue, will finally be served when Tookie is terminated.
Williams did not deserve mercy. He showed no mercy to a young convenience store clerk and to a motel mangement family of three, when he robbed and gunned them down in cold blood. Most prison inmates, not just those on death row, will claim to have found redemption. Even when that is true, that does not absolve them of the punishment they received. As I stated in my previous blog, Williams was not covicted of finding redemption on death row, nor was he convicted of writing childrens books. He was sentenced to death for the cold blooded murder of four innocent victims. When Tookie is terminated, God can have mercy on his soul.
There is something no one has taken into consideration. Had Williams been granted clemency, there would have been no guarantee that he would have spent the rest of his life in prison. Some future governor, one of a left wing persuasion, would be able to grant Tookie a pardon and release him back into society.
There is still the possibility that his defenders will be able to find a bleeding heart judge who will grant Tookie a last minute of stay of execution. Even after the holding of the clemency hearing, they went to the California Supreme Court which, before the goernor's announcement was made, denied their petition for a stay of execution. That will not stop them in their efforts to see justice denied. Hopefully, after midnight, we will be rid of this thug once and for all. Then we can celebrate the fact that justice has finally been served.
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