Stanley Tookie Williams is dead. He was executed at 12:35 am PT by lethal injection at San Quentin State Prison. He was 51 years old. A co-founder of one of the country’s most notorious street gangs, ...

LOS ANGELES – Celebrities, religious leaders and a throng including gang members overflowed a church Tuesday for the funeral of Stanley Tookie Williams III, the convicted multiple murderer and Crips ...

The execution of Stanley “Tookie” Williams, convicted killer of four and Crips gang co-founder, ought not be the match thrown on the fiery debate over the death penalty. This page has been for the ...

Convicted murderer and Crips gang co-founder Stanley Tookie Williams awaits the result of a last-minute plea for clemency before his scheduled execution next week. His fate is now in the hands of ...

A Marin judge on Monday dismissed a claim by the son of Stanley “Tookie” Williams, indicating the convicted gang leader who was executed at San Quentin State Prison freely signed a will naming a ...

Stanley Tookie Williams, the Crips gang co-founder who became an anti-gang crusader on death row, died by lethal injection early Tuesday morning at California's San Quentin State Prison. Alex Chadwick ...

SACRAMENTO – Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will meet with attorneys Thursday to help reach a decision that could prove the toughest yet of his political career: Should he spare a four-time convicted ...

The clock is ticking on what could be the last days of Stanley Tookie Williams' life. The man who co-founded the street gang, the Crips, scheduled to be executed in about two weeks for murdering four ...

Last night, state and federal courts rejected appeals on behalf of Stanley "Tookie" Williams. Today, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger denied clemency. Williams is scheduled to die by lethal execution at ...

Poet Lucie Brock-Broido reads her poem “Of Tookie Williams” from her latest collection “Stay, Illusion.” Brock-Broido explained that the subject of her poem is Stanley “Tookie” Williams, one of the ...

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. — Stanley Tookie Williams, whose self-described evolution from gang thug to antiviolence crusader won him an international following and nominations for a Nobel Peace Prize, was ...

Stanley Tookie Williams, the gang founder and convicted murderer who claims innocence, convinced over 50,000 people to sign petitions asking that he not be executed. But in the end, neither the courts ...