He got what he deserved. What really sickens me is how a lot of people are trying to make this a race issue. It has absolutely nothing to do with race. He'd have died the same way regardless of his race. The only real race issue in this case is that with the people praying for his clemency. You can bet your ass if he was a white guy, Jesse Jackson, and the other people praying outside never would have showed up and never would have shed a tear.
He got the death penalty because he brutally and viciously murdered 4 people and he had no remorse for his actions. How can you feel remorse for something you won't even admit to?
Stanley "Tookie" Williams legacy is not one of preventing gang violence. It's one of practicing it. It's one of starting a gang that still murders people today. It's one of destroying the lives of his victims. People seem to forget about his victims so here's a little reminder...
Albert Owens
Tsai-Shai Yang
Ye-Chen Lin
Whether or not he has "found Jesus" is irrelevant. Whether or not he poses a danger to others is irrelevant. Whether or not he can convince others to avoid gangs is irrelevant. What matters is he killed people and now he's going to pay the price. When he killed those people he forfeited his own right to live.
I would personally have given him the lethal injection and sleep like a baby afterwards.
His death was retribution for his actions. You can call it vengeance, or revenge, or whatever else you want. But in the end it's justice. Actually it really isn't. He should have been killed 20 years ago. Justice would be if they killed him, then revived him 4 times and then let him die. Or if they were to kill 4 people he loves right in front of him, and then kill him painfully and slowly.