Stanley "Tookie" Williams is the author of nine children's books. Great.
Tookie Williams was nominated for the Nobel peace prize. Great.
Tookie Williams is on death row for murder. Great!

Now to me, the three above facts are mutually exclusive.

There is now quite a vocal campaign headed up by the likes of Jesse Jackson and Snoop Dog to grant him clemency.

Now, I can understand why Snoop would. He is a Crip and Tookie started the gang in the first place. I'll just leave it at that. Jesse Jackson is another story.

Anything that kills African American youth in great numbers (drugs, violence, gangs etc..) is something that Jesse has spoken out against and I will give him (Jesse) credit for doing that.

If Tookie Williams were white and founded a gang or group that was responsible for as many black deaths as the Crips were there would be uproar if anyone stood in the way of his execution. Wasn't Edgar Ray Killen convicted for something similar? (indirectly responsible for someone else's death)

It would be a statisticians dream to calculate how many black youth have died as a result of Tookie Williams and the gang he started and how many tons of drugs have been sold in black communities by members of his gang.

With this in mind, I wonder why would Jesse not be in favor of his execution? Jesse says that there was evidence withheld or destroyed and, DNA was not tested. My initial response to that would be that this is the State of California. If the liberals and the ACLU in that state cant get you out of jail, nobody can.

Tookie after spending six years in solitary confinement (!) wrote some children's books. With that done, its time for him to die in peace.