Monday, December 12, 2005

No Clemency for "Tookie"

Good. I've gone a little soft on the death penalty in the past couple of years (read Mark Fuhrman's book to see why) but justice must be served in this case. "Tookie" may have done much to combat gang violence, but he isn't on death row for being a Crip founding member. He's on death row for the execution-style murder of 4 innocents. He has maintained his innocence all along for this crime - a crime a jury of his peers convicted him of. I don't care what Snoop Dogg or these other 2-bit celebrities think - remorse for the crime you are convicted of should be a necessary (but not sufficient) condition of clemency.

Read here about his crimes
. He's scheduled to die tomorrow - may God have mercy on his soul.

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