72 hours before his execution. How do you think HE felt?

[Deja Q]

Tookie, of course.

Ignore all my previous posts on the matter.

How do you think he felt, three days before his execution?

Edited: oops

[verse18]

1. did you mean

72 hours?

[BigMcLargehuge]

2. 72 days?

or 72 hours?

Or both?

[Deja Q]

4. Hours... oopsie on my part.

:dunce:

[Vickers]

3. Do you mean 72 hours in your title?

:shrug:

I imagine he felt at peace. He had plenty of time to accept his fate.

[sasha031]

5. very worried

I think he believed he had a powerful impact on todays youth, he felt he had a purpose, a mission to prevent young people from going down his path. His fear may have been who and what would take his place, and his death would leave a sense of hopelessness for the youth he was trying to help.

[Fescue4u]

6. 72 hours before the victims were killed. How do you think THEY felt?

Of course they had felt like they always did. They thought they had a full life ahead of them.

They didnt get a chance to hire a PR firm to save them. They didnt get a chance to take care of their affairs, say goodbye to friends.

They had no idea that a vicious killer was just around the corner, and that he would get to enjoy another 25 years of life.


Question: Why would anyone CARE what a vicious killer felt before he was punished?

[Deja Q]

7. Good points, but I think I can answer them:

Given his actions that led to him getting the death penalty, I was for the D.P. in this case. Hmmm, maybe I should have said people to see my previous posts...

But 3 days before being wiped out of existence, those people he killed hadn't a clue.

Tookie had a clue.

And, psychologically speaking, there would be benfit IN knowing.

The core problems that drive people to do bad things are psychological, wouldn't you say?

[sasha031]

10. he was sick at the time

I AM NOT DEFENDING WHAT HE DID WHATS SO EVER!
But I am not so blind to know that people can not have an epiphany,
Who is worse the war criminals that are in power who can do know wrong and get filthy rich in the process.
Or someone who came from a completely screwed up violent background, has a 360' turn around and dedicates his life to helping others.
It surprises me the limited perspective that some people have that frequent such a progressive site as DU.

[Fescue4u]

14. I disagree with the assertion that he did a 360 turn around

You have acknolowledged that he committed those crimes. Yet that is something Tookie never did in his remaining 25 years.

Part of turning yourself around is taking responsibility.


/snarky comment on
You're right, he did turn around 360' degrees, since 360 degrees puts you in the same direction as when you started
/snarky comment off

[sasha031]

8. it's obvious

you can't get out of the vengeance is yours mode.

[Fescue4u]

9. So now its vengence to reflect upon the victims of killers ?

[sweetheart]

11. I'm sure he's very happy

I will be overjoyed when i finally drop dead,
when this body is decomposed away, and the suffering,
the want and the pain of existance washed away in
the light.

That's my vibe on him now, that he's ecstatically
immersed joy beyond any of his earthy dreams,
that he's more than at peace, now free from
that prison-life, finally free.

Every death a tragedy, every extinguishing of the
light.

[rinsd]

12. I really don't care.....

I didn't want him to die because I do not believe in state sposored execution.

That said, I can't garner much sympathy for him. He was an unrepentant murderer and key figure in the poisoing of his and many other communities.

Same thing with the next guy on the docket, I don't want him executed. But the mentions of sickness and frailty do no justice to the people he had murdered both on the outside and from inside prison.

[sasha031]

15. this can go on forever

All I know, I read some of the letters that he had received from ex gang members. I am not an authority on Williams, but form what I read in his way he was trying to make a difference much later in life. It's got to account for something.
Maybe I am the distorted one, but I question what is it like to grow up in a war zone, what happens to our soldiers when they are subjected to 24hr a day violence.
I grew up the suburbs, I try to understand others particularly if they get a bit of enlightenment.

[Nye Bevan]

13. Probably wishing he had never murdered all those poor people (nt)