BREAKING NEWS
December 1, 2005
CNN
State’s
high court won’t spare Williams
Schwarzenegger
could still stop execution of gang
founder
Nonviolence
But what’s even more important: Stan Tookie Williams’ commitment is a vital impulse for a civil approach to violence. His history, personal chance and initiatives have yielded and will yield more positive results than all correctional institutions in the United States and, by their own example, call for a policy chance that at long last starts to again invest into the education of young people instead of prison expansion.
What you can do
• Read the currently two best newspaper article “Dead Man Talking” in The Times and Clemency for a Crip in the International Herald Tribune
• Inform yourself and read more:
www.againstthecrimeofsilence.de
• Sign the petition for clemency to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
Or sign it here:
• Mail your own formulations to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
• Send a fax to Governor Schwarzenegger: 001-916-445-4633
Below you find our letter to him in English and German. Copy or change as you please. Write something entirely different or only your signature. Your vote could make the difference.
In English
To the Governor of California &endash; Arnold Schwarzenegger &endash; Fax: 001-916-445-4633
Dear Mr. Schwarzenegger,
in your mother country Austria as well as all over Europe the death penalty has been abandoned, and we are hopefully aware of your deliberate approach to the issue in general and the case of Stan Tookie Williams in particular. There are reasonable doubts concerning strong racist elements during his trial, and there are reasonable doubts concerning his guilt, whereas there is no reasonable doubt whatsoever concerning his positive effect on tens of thousands of youth in Los Angeles, California, the whole United States and the world.
We hope and wish that you feel able to show the courage and humanity to grant him clemency in spite of the high pressure not to do so from many sides.
Please stop the execution date for Stan Tookie Wiliams and grant him clemency.
In German
An den Gouverneur von Kalifornien – Arnold Schwarzenegger – Fax: 001-916-445-4633
Sehr geehrter Herr Schwarzenegger,
Sie sind der erste Gouverneur eines US-amerikanischen Bundesstaates, dem wir in deutscher Sprache schreiben können, und wir tun es hier in der Absicht, Sie an Ihr Herkunftsland und seine Tradition zu erinnern. In Österreich und in ganz Europa ist die Todesstrafe geächtet. Wir haben mit Hoffnung zur Kenntnis genommen, dass Sie sich damit ernsthaft auseinandersetzen und dass Sie insbesondere den Fall Stan Tookie Williams sorgfältig überdenken wollen. Es besteht der begründete Verdacht auf starke rassistische Elemente in seinem Prozess und es bestehen begründete Zweifel an seiner Schuld.
An seiner Besserung und seiner positiven Wirkung auf Zehntausende von Jugendlichen hingegen bestehen keine Zweifel.
Wir wünschen Ihnen den Mut und die menschliche Größe, Stan Tookie Williams trotz starkem Druck von vielen Seiten zu begnadigen.
Heben Sie den Hinrichtungsbefehl für Stan Tookie Williams auf und begnadigen Sie ihn !
German Network Against the Death Penalty and to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
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