Tookie Williams

I am apalled at our country. I have lost all respect for Arnold Schwarzengaer (sp?) as a politician. If you guys haven't heard Tookie Williams is a man that is on death row in San Quentin. He's expected to be murdered (I mean executed) shortly after midnight tonight. He was the co-founder of the crips and is convicted of killing 4 people in 1979. Yeah, sounds pretty bad doesn't he? No, he has been spending his time in jail writing books urging children to stay out of gangs. He has been nominated for the nobel peace prize for his work and has touched many young people through his anti-gang advocacy. He also denies he actually killed these people. The evidence against him was based upon jail-house snitch witnessess with thier own things to gain by testifying. The evidence was not slam dunk, and he has changed his life around and still maintains he didn't do it. A request for clemency was put in to Arnold Schwarzenager to spare his life based on his work to stop gangs. Arnold refused, and I was so pissed I cried. By killing this man they are killing so many more children that won't hear his voice of remorse warning them, kill more people through the gangs! This is not justice. The family of the slain say they want to watch Tookie die. How could you ever WANT to watch someone die? Even if someone killed someone close to me I could never watch them be put to death. Where is the mercy? Where is the hope that God can change someone, which he has, and we want to stop his good deeds? Gov. Schwarzenager says that he saw no reason to grant celemency, that Tookie had not turned his life around. That the move was political. Well that is a load of crap. Tookie is an example of what can happen to people. People can change. Screw politics, screw arnold. He just sent a man to death that could be innocent (a lot of people on death row are later found innocent) and sent the youth of our future to death as well. Just thinking about it infuriates me to tears. Where's the mercy? Where is the grace God has given us?