Stanley "Tookie" Williams is now dead. He is a four-time murderer, it's true. But he's spent twenty years on death row trying to make amends: as a Nobel-nominated anti-gang activist and children's book writer. Twenty years, he has tried to do good for the bad he did.
There has to be some irony that the same week Williams is put to death, Christian fundamentalists are complaining that somebody (those damn secularists!) stole Christmas. If we're such a Christian nation, then what happened to forgiveness?
So what kind of message do we send, when a man spends 20 years of his life trying to make amends for his wrongs and is summarily put to death? That he is still worthless.
Will the next death row inmate even try?
1 comment:
I actually woke up at midnight out here to see if it really happened. I think it is a really tough case mostly because he has done things to make the world better, even from death row. However, the pushiment is based on what he did, not what he is doing. That being said, I feel like it does demonstrate how 'an eye for an eye' leaves a room full of blind people.
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