"Thank God, there will always be a Texas."

One can pray that be so.

Maybe the solution would be to enlarge the borders of Texas...

heh

The solution may well be to cut off all funding after the first round of appeals, compensating defense then only on evidence of real innocence, not just "He didn't mean it."

Criminal loving leftists most love the worst of American criminals and fight to get them paroled or pardoned or released or their sentences overturned or awarded the highest honors bestowed by some leftist institution.

On Friday I listened to the man (on radio) that had been, for fifteen years (now retired,) in charge of all operations where Stanley Williams was, and still is imprisoned. In fact, the man was the Chief of Security, supervising all guards working death row, and in charge of maintaining watch over the very worst of prisoners on death row.

He related that Williams has never been allowed out of highest security confinement during his entire term of imprisonment, because he has continuously exhibited behavior that proved he was simply too dangerous. He stated that quite frankly, he viewed Williams as the ‘most dangerous criminal ever to be imprisoned in that institution’ and that if Williams was ever allowed outside of highest security, he was certain that Williams would kill again without hesitation at his first opportunity.

Contrary to the hype about Williams writing - or ‘co-authoring’ books - we now know that he never wrote a single word in any book. He merely signed a piece of paper that gave the real author permission to say that he was a ‘co-author’ (among, obviously, many other fictitious statements.) In other words, what is being said of Williams, by his leftist fans are absolute bald-faced lies.

This is demonstrable in more than one way - but the primary being that he is, and has always been held among a group of about twenty individuals (of the over 600 inmates on death row) that are considered extremely dangerous. They are not allowed to have anything in their cells whatsoever beyond a very strict and very limited list of material items - primarily highly-dangerous-inmate special clothing, and bed clothing, and temporarily a pan (only) from which they eat food. No pens, pencils, paper or anything other writing material of any kind is ever allowed within these cells.

RonC:

Contrary to the hype about Williams writing - or ‘co-authoring’ books - we now know that he never wrote a single word in any book....

[He is] not allowed to have... pens, pencils, paper or anything other writing material of any kind.

RonC, that's interesting; if you can find a link to that effect, I'll blog about it and credit you.

Thanks,

Dafydd

The ACLU has been providing free trial lawyers for the most murderous of criminals for years - and free lawyers for any death-row inmate who will allow their kind of ‘help’ - with one objective - to make getting convictions, and imprisonment of the worst criminals as expensive to the state (and the taxpayer) as possible.

The ACLU has become very successful in achieving that goal - which now allows the ACLU to postulate their most powerful argument to protect criminals - that, ‘The death penalty simply costs too much to administer, and should be eliminated.”

Their (ACLU) figures - the cost to imprison death-row inmates in California averages 96 thousand dollars per year. Times the 600 current inmates, is $57.6 million per year - times the average 22 years per inmate, spent on death row, prior to being put painlessly to sleep, taxpayers will bleed $1.2 billion dollars to finally see justice done.

The solution? - first, hang all ACLU lawyers for creating this mess. Second, hang all convicted murderers after one failed appeal - time for completion and ruling on appeal not to exceed one year after initial conviction. Third, eliminate the ability for judges, Governors, and the President of the US to issue stays of execution, unless irrefutable evidence of innocence has been presented. Then, the death penalty would again be the effective deterrent it once was.

"..if you can find a link to that effect.."

I've not searched for a link - but will do so, because I want to know more too. I've heard both of these items (Friday) on the radio (Roger Hedgecock show I believe, caller the former head of guards where Williams is.)

The second (no items of any kind) on another show early Saturday morning on my way home from work (do 4 to midnight at satellite earthstation) and I can't tell you who that was, as I don't normally listen to the show (possibly 'America in the morning'... or something like that) and did not stay tuned in long.

Excellent commentary except for the inclusion of Ms. Rabinowitz' campaign on behalf of Mr. Amirault. I used to live in the PRM and am very familiar with the details of Mr. Amirault's case. There is no question that he was not guilty and a victim, along with his family who were also wrongly convicted of the same "crimes", of the most egregious example of prosecutorial misconduct in the history of jurisprudence.

Tookie Williams deserves the death penalty. Gerald Amirault deserves at least a link in your commentary to Ms. Rabinowitz' articles about his conviction.

Here is a link to my website about the ritual abuse panic that sent Gerald Amirault to prison. Did you know that there are still people in prison today, hysterically accused of bizarre molestation of young children? My website tells their stories.

And for the story of another man who wrote his way off of death row, visit my crimemagazine article on Edgar Smith http://crimemagazine.com/03/edgarsmith,0825.htm

I'd like to see a reference to the assertion that Tookie Williams didn't write any books, too. Interesting.

The existence of Texas is about all that keeps California from essentially picking the Presidency; a thought that should bring shrieking terror into even the stoutest heart.

There is unfortunately nothing uniquely American about false prosecutions like the McMartin witch hunt; here’s one from Canada, and here’s another from France.

The French case collapsed just last week, too late to help one of the ten falsely convicted. He committed suicide in prison.

By the way, Gerald Amirault was not “probably falsely convicted” and is not “evidently innocent.” He was falsely convicted. He was and is innocent. Anyone who doubts this should research the topic.

"San Quentin spokesman Vernell Crittendon, speaking on behalf of the department, went further in an interview last week, saying he suspects Williams is orchestrating gangland crimes from his cell."

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10085975/
http://www.ktvu.com/news/5346344/detail.html
http://da.co.la.ca.us/pdf/swilliams.pdf

And from http://www.kron4.com/Global/story.asp?S=4159260

"I think, the last 10 years, he has not attacked any persons on Death Row, and has not been in violation of, any serious rule violation," Crittendon said. During the previous 15 years behind bars, Williams record was more checkered. "Well, he's been involved in incidents that involved sexual abuse, battery, assault on staff, threatening staff, fighting, just to list a few of the incidents that he's been involved in."

The LA DA response to Tookie's clemency request is here http://da.co.la.ca.us/pdf/swilliams.pdf There are also gruesome picture's of the Tookies victims and testimony of eye witnesses to the crimes and how Tookie said he wanted to murder them too. There are handwritten notes Tookie wrote for his planned jail escape where we was going to use silencers. It also lists a series of violent attacks on other inmates that ended in 1993.

There's some interviews with Tookie at http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/30/153247
Here's a key part:

AMY GOODMAN: What are your thoughts on the death penalty, in general?

STANLEY TOOKIE WILLIAMS: The death penalty, it's not a system of justice, it is a system of – a so-called system of justice that perpetuates a, shall I say, a vindictive type of response, a vigilante type of aura upon it. We’re talking about something that is barbaric. We’re talking about something that – it doesn't deter anything. I mean, if it did, then it wouldn't be so many – especially in California, we're talking about over 650 individuals on death row. And if it was a deterrent, this place wouldn't be filled like this. And it's an expensive ordeal that – the money, as you know, the monetary means comes out of the taxpayers' pocket.

And for anyone to think that murder can be resolved by murdering, it's ridiculous. I mean, we look at all of the wars that we have throughout other countries and other nations, and all it does is – this violence, all it does is engender violence. There seems to be no end, but a continuous cycle, an incessant process of blood and gore that doesn't end. And through violence, you can't possibly obtain peace. You can, in a sense, occupy a belief of peace; in other words, through this mechanism of violence, you – it appears that because there is a standing army or standing police that is used in brutality or violence or a system that uses brutality or violence that that is going to totally eliminate or stop criminous behavior or criminous minds or killings or what have you, but it doesn't. "

Tookie claimed he started the Crips to stop gangland violence and that it grew out of control. His speaks of law enforcement as being barbaric and vigilante. It's almost as is he believes that the government is just another gang, and we shouldn't use violence to stop crime, because it's just too, you know, expensive.

Mbecker908:

Gerald Amirault deserves at least a link in your commentary to Ms. Rabinowitz' articles about his conviction.

The Rabinowitz article in the WSJ to which I linked above also discusses the Amirault case.

Lastango:

By the way, Gerald Amirault was not “probably falsely convicted” and is not “evidently innocent.” He was falsely convicted. He was and is innocent. Anyone who doubts this should research the topic.

I didn't say I doubted it. I write carefully: until I'm prepared to argue the case, I don't express my opinion as fact.

Dafydd,
With respect to the Amirault, I didn't mean to imply that you had said he was guilty. You clearly say he is "evidently innocent". I posted the comment because of the reference to "Gerald 'Tookie' Amirault".

The article is right on point. Thanks for clarifying the link to the Rabinowitz article.

Mbecker908:

I posted the comment because of the reference to "Gerald 'Tookie' Amirault".

Because that's his name, dude. Do a Google search on Gerald.Tooky.Amirault (and note that Amirault is "Tooky," not "Tookie" -- Tooky Amirault, Tookie Williams).

It's just part of the lattice of coincidence that lies on top of everything.

Dafydd

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