The suspense is building. Tookie's latest request for a stay of execution was rejected today, and he is scheduled to be executed immediately after Midnight tonight. Arnold has yet to make any public statement on clemency, but he is supposed to do so this afternoon. The timeline treatment is usually reserved for statesmen and artists, and I wonder if NPR is trying to project an elevated view of him, but I notice it contains the following, from 1987, six years after Tookie's conviction for four murders:
1987 -- Williams is placed in solitary confinement for 6 1/2 years after committing a string of violent incidents behind bars, including assaults on guards and other inmates.
The timeline ends as follows:
Dec. 13, 2005 -- Williams is scheduled to be put to death at one minute past midnight by lethal injection.
Update: No clemency from Arnold. So much for
predicting the future.
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