Dear Arnold: If you're not going to commute Williams then plz retire

[LynneSin]

You ran a campaign back in 2003 that you were a "Man of the People" and that you were going to return California back to the people.

Then you didn't get your way in congress and cost tax payers millions of dollars to run a special election that the people you claim you supported didn't really want. All along you took amazing amounts of campaign contributions from special interest groups & corporations that put Gray Davis, the former governor you replaced because you said he was so corrupt" to shame.

In less than a year the people will go back to the polls and decide whether or not you deserve a full 4 year term back in office. And at this point it's not looking good. You're popularity ranks just a little bit better than Gov Taft of Ohio and that man is scandal-ridden with problems.

So if you really really care about the people that you were suppose to come into office and represent then do one good thing during your tenure and that is to overturn the death penalty for Stanley "Tookie" Williams. It seems the people want him spared from lethal injection and only your special interest friends & republican conservatives feel otherwise.

First and foremost, if I had it my way I say just overturn ALL of the death penalties in your state since the death penalty is barbaric and makes us no better than the terrorist regimes we criticize. Civilized Nations do not use the Death Penalty as a method of punishment.

Second, no one is asking you to free Williams. Williams, the founder of one of the bloodiest street gangs the Crips, probably deserves to be in jail. But during his time of incarceration Williams has turned his life around. He has found God and he writes children's books to teach them to stay away from the life of gangs. Williams may spend the rest of his life behind bars but he has become one of your strongest allies in the war against Gangs in California. Make the condition of sparing Williams life that he spend the rest of his life behind bars being the voice for the anti-gang movement.

So Arnold, now is the time to prove that you are the governor of the people by commuting William's death penalty sentence to life in jail. Everyone in Hollywood supports this move so please Arnold - do the right thing!