Governor Says No:

Governor Schwarzenegger has decided not grant Stanley “Tookie” Williams clemency which means Williams will die by lethal injection tomorrow night.

I have no idea whether Mr. Williams is guilty or innocent. But I don’t believe in the death penalty because A) it doesn’t work and B) I think society should be more civil than its criminals. And revenge, no matter how justified it seems, is no way to run a democracy.

Help us all.

UPDATE: San Francisco Chronicle coverage of the execution which happened at 12:01 this morning. It’s pretty clear where they stand. I did learn though that there is a pro-death penalty advocacy group, The Criminal Justice Legal Foundation, which calls itself “the only public interest organization in America working full time to assure that our courts respect the rights of crime victims and law-abiding society,” in addition to groups like The National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.

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