Terminator 4
Tue, 2005-12-13 14:40
#1
Terminator 4
From the BBC website today:
Former gang leader Stanley "Tookie" Williams has been executed by lethal injection, 24 years after he was convicted of killing four people.
He denied the murders and, while in jail, campaigned against gang violence.
California Governor Schwarzenegger questioned his claims of redemption and refused to grant clemency.
So Arnie finally makes the transition from fiction to reality, and another man pays for votes with his life.
archergirl
Don't get me started on Tookie, hox. I signed the petition sent to Arnie begging for leniency. Sick. I went to bed last night thinking, "When I wake up, Tookie will be dead." Some fucking justice system.
Foster
We executed our 1000th deathrow inmate last week i think - sickening...
i also signed the petition AG. I've signed lots of them.
archergirl
It's no wonder no one else in the world takes our human rights campaigns seriously. We don't even have human rights in our own country. What a waste of a life.
It's the *clinicalness* (is there such a word?) of it that sickens me the most. They couldn't get the needle into his vein because he was so muscular. Imagine that. Fucking awful.
Sheeeesh.
Foster
We just keep racking them up - one "victory" after another...
California rarely pulls the trigger. This one was political, as bobblehat said.
Now TX - they kill people for sport, it seems.
camus
woe betide the little man that dares to cross the U.S of A!
rokkitnite
In my friends' stageshow they illustrate the concept of 'context' by saying how in Arnie's movies, when he mows down hordes of criminals, we see him as a hero, but if he did that in his job as Governor of California, he'd be seen as too Liberal.
Curious connie
*We just keep racking them up - one "victory" after another...*
you sure do, innocent lives in iraq versus convicted murderer in California...I know which one I'd be protesting about that's for sure!
camus
Makes you kind of wonder who votes the party that supports capital punishment into power.