REGARDING...TOOKIE WILLIAMS
I AM SO UPSET...I'M WATCHING "LARRY KING" AND THERE ARE DEBATES WAGING OVER THE FATE OF TOOKIE WILLIAMS IMPENDING EXECUTION.
LARRY HAS BROUGHT FORTH PEOPLE FROM SEVERAL SIDES OF THIS ISSUE...THE PARENTS AND STEP-PARENTS OF THE MURDERED VICTIMS, PROSECUTORS, LAW MAKERS....AND FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES OF WILLIAMS.
THIS LOOKED LIKE THERE WAS STILL A MINUTE GLIMMER OF HOPE UNTIL A FEW MINUTES AGO, WHEN THE SUPREME COURT REFUSED A LAST-MINUTE-REPRIEVE FOR TOOKIE WILLIAMS.
HE IS SCHEDULED TO BE EXECUTED BY LETHAL INJECTION ABOUT 3:00 THIS MORNING.
GOV. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER HAD REFUSED CLEMENCY TO WILLIAMS...
I AGREED WHOLEHEARTEDLY WITH MIKE FERRELL...WHO SAID THAT IT IS A SHAME TO DO THIS, TO PLAY GOD, AND HE ALSO BROUGHT UP THE POINT THAT "WHAT IF WILLIAMS IS TRULY INNOCENT"?
THERE HAVE BEEN MANY INNOCENT PEOPLE WHO WERE EXECUTED, ONLY LATER TO HAVE BEEN FOUND INNOCENT.
WITH DNA TESTING AND THE HIGH TECH METHODOLOGY INVOLVED TODAY IN SOLVING HERETOFORE UNSOLVEABLE CRIMES, IT COULD BE A CASE OF EXECUTING AN INNOCENT MAN.
I AM AWARE OF WILLIAMS' CHECKERED PAST, YET HE IS IN SAN QUENTIN PRISON AND COULD BE ORDERED TO LIFE IN PRISON WITHOUT POSSIBILITY OF PAROLE...AND HE WOULD NOT NEED TO BE PUT TO DEATH.
I AM OPPOSED TO THE DEATH PENALTY ....
THERE HAVE BEEN SERIAL KILLERS WHO CLAIMED MOST ADAMANTLY THAT GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO ESCAPE, THEY WOULD CONTINUE TO MURDER, TORTURE, BUTCHER AND SEXUALLY ASSAULT MORE VICTIMS...AND ALL TOO OFTEN THIS HAS HAPPENED, CAUSING MANY TO FEEL THAT IF SECURITY MEASURES WERE THAT LAX, THAT MAYBE WE WOULD BE BETTER OFF TO PUT THOSE PEOPLE TO DEATH.
IF THEY WERE SHACKLED AND CASTRATED, PUBLIC OUTCRY WOULD BE THAT IT WAS INHUMANE OR UNETHICAL, YET THEY SCREAM FOR "JUSTICE" AND ASK FOR THE DEATH PENALTY.
WHY SHOULD THEY NOT SUFFER FOR THE CRIMES THEY HAVE COMMITTED? I AM IN AGREEMENT THAT THEY SHOULD BE MADE TO SUFFER AS A JUST PUNISHMENT FOR THEIR CRIMES....BUT SUFFERING IS ONLY POSSIBLE WHILST ALIVE.
I THINK IMPRISONMENT FOR LIFE WITH NO PAROLE, TAKING AWAY ALL THE ACCOUTREMENTS OF COMFORT AND BEING FORCED TO WORK ARE PUNISHMENTS....AND I AM NOT OPPOSED TO THE CASTRATION AND SOLITARY CONFINEMENT OF SERIAL KILLERS. ACTUALLY, I AM IN FAVOR OF IT. I THINK THERE SHOULD BE MUCH BETTER SECURITY AND THESE TYPES OF PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE NO FREEDOMS WHATSOEVER...NOT THE MEREST POSSIBILTY FOR ESCAPE.
SELF-DEFENSE IS ONE THING BUT PRE-MEDITATED MURDER IS ANOTHER...AND THE DEATH PENALTY IS PRE-MEDITATED MURDER.
AS I THINK DEEPLY ABOUT THIS CASE IN PARTICULAR, I AM STRUCK BY TOOKIE WILLIAM'S DESIRE TO ALTER HIS PATH...HE ADMITS TO A DESTRUCTIVE PAST, WITHIN THE GANGLAND REALM, YET HE VEHEMENTLY DENIES HIS PARTICIPATION IN THE 4 KILLINGS.
HE HAS WRITTEN BOOKS IN AN ATTEMPT TO DISSUADE KIDS FROM JOINING GANGS, HE HAS RE-DIRECTED HIS ENERGIES AND RAGE TOWARD BODY BUILDING, WRITING AND LEARNING.
WHETHER OR NOT HE IS GUILTY, WHETHER OR NOT HE IS TRULY CHANGED, WHETHER OR NOT HE IS FOR REAL, ONE THING REMAINS....
HE IS A HUMAN BEING....
GOD CREATED HIM....
NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO PLAY GOD AND DEPRIVE HIM OF LIFE!
HOW CAN THE EXECUTIONER LIVE WITH HIMSELF?
ARE THEY NOT JUST AS BAD AS THE ALLEGED MURDERER?
IS THE JOB TITLE OF "EXECUTIONER" A LIFE CHOICE?
WHO WOULD CHOOSE THIS AS A VOCATION?
THINK ABOUT IT.
