LAist: No Clemency for Tookie

vikki

Tue, 13 Dec 2005 10:11:55 -0800

I care as much about Tookie as he would about me. What I do care about are the thousands of young people who live in fear of these fucking gangs. Good kids who can't walk to school or hang out without getting shot. Where are all the black leaders, that idiot Jamie Foxx, etc. when someone graduates high school? Gets a scholarship? Stays OUT of jail? Oh, they're trying to free some scum bag who shoots veterans in the back and women in the face.

Plague

Tue, 13 Dec 2005 08:38:15 -0800

Revenge. But you act like that is a bad thing.

Julie

Tue, 13 Dec 2005 08:20:46 -0800

Riddle me this: If killing people is wrong, why do we kill people to show killing people is wrong?

Robert Parry

Mon, 12 Dec 2005 18:07:31 -0800

More than 40% of those on death row are black. OK. What percentage of convicted murderers are black?

nola

Mon, 12 Dec 2005 17:17:34 -0800

It doesn't make much sense. Then again the pathetic Tookie-lovers don't make much sense. Much of the black on black crime is drug related, which makes the victim less sympathetic and it is harder to get people to testify. The black murders of whites often involved other felonies like robbery, making the death penalty easier to get. And who cares about the statistics - this guy earned his ticket to the chair. Good riddance.

anon

Mon, 12 Dec 2005 16:34:05 -0800

"And the more we think about the death penalty, the number we get." -- I'm not sure this makes any sense. Seems like a couple words have been deleted?