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Posted on | October 31, 2005 |

Monday, October 31, 2005
By Roger FriedmanJamie Foxx Wants B-Day Present From Governator

Oscar-winner Jamie Foxx turns 38 on Dec. 13, and there is only one birthday present he wants from California Gov. (and fellow actor) Arnold Schwarzenegger: clemency for Stan “Tookie” Williams.

Williams is an acclaimed author who has been mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize. He’s also a convicted murderer who is set to be executed on Foxx’s birthday after 24 years on death row.

“We can’t let it happen,” Foxx told me last night at the premiere of his new film, “Jarhead.” “We’ve got to do everything we can to get the word out. Do you know they’ve collected nearly 30,000 signatures so far?”

Williams was sentenced to death in 1981 for the 1979 murder of a Los Angeles area 7-Eleven manager, and, shortly thereafter, three other people at a motel. He was already infamous at the time for founding the Los Angeles street gang the Crips, who were responsible for hundreds of deaths.

It amazes me that Hollywood dumbasses want to save a man who is directly and indirectly responsible for the deaths of hundreds of people, maybe more. Stan William’s death sentence isn’t about the decisions he made after he was put in prison, it is about the decisions he made before. Had he not been captured and convicted for the murder of those four people he killed in 1979 he would have continued his life of crime and most likely killed again and again and again. It isn’t my intent to take away from the life he has led since then. He deserves credit for his great works, yes, even his Presidential recognition. But the victims of his crimes deserve retribution, and their families deserve closure. It is time for Mr. Williams to give his victims their due, and it is time for the acting school dropouts to stop glorfying society’s predators and ignoring society’s innocent victims.

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