MSN just came across the wire; US Supreme Court refuses to grant clemency in Tookie's Case.
Well we can probably write of about 15% of the US population ever deciding to reform with this ruling.
Will LA erupt into riots at 12:06 am Tuesday morning 12/13/2005???
Who will wonder?
http://www.latimes.com/...
Tookie is the poster child of redemption.
He has shown this in front of the world by receiving the Nobel Prize for Peace.
I believe some in LA will fight for Tookies redemption in the streets which will prove that granting him clemency on the basis of mercy would have saved a certion portion of our society and just a bit of our culture from the baser instincts of human nature.
I will believe in god when I find one that will deliver us all from the human frailty of vendettas with the poor.
Tookie is the test case to see if anyone can escape the death penalty through good works.
If the answer is no then most of us have no hope.