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Tookie Williams Granted Private Clemency Hearing
http://www.ballerstatus.net/news/read/id/38448194/
Crips co-founder, Stanley "Tookie" Williams, has been
granted a private clemency hearing by California Governor
Arnold Schwarzenegger, just weeks after Snoop Dogg
and hundreds of others rallied in support of Williams
outside the San Quentin State Prison (see "Snoop Dogg,
Hundreds Rally For 'Tookie' At San Quentin").
According to published reports, Schwarzenegger agreed
that he would meet for a private hearing on December 8th
in his office with Williams' lawyers, Los Angeles County
prosecutors and others involved. The governor holds the
final decision in Williams' clemency hearing, and has the
authority to change Williams' death sentence to life without
parole. Although he is not legally obligated to hold a public
or private hearing, he can decide on clemency requests on
a "case-by-case basis," said his spokeswoman, Margita
Thompson to USA Today.
Williams' faces the death sentence for killing four people in 1979 during two
separate robberies. He has maintained his innocence throughout his prison sentence
and has even asked the California Supreme Court to reopen his case, alleging "shoddy
forensics" helped convict him, according to USA Today.
The Supreme Court has yet to rule on his request. But, Los Angeles County prosecutors
and victims' relatives have demanded his execution.
Since his time on death row, Williams has become a Nobel Peace Prize nominee for a
series of books -- aimed at keeping the youth away from gang violence -- he has
penned while incarcerated.
Governor Schwarzenegger has rejected the only other two petitions from death row
inmates seeking a commutation of a death sentence -- one last year and the other in
January.
— Natina Williams
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