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Stanley Tookie Williams III [1] [2] (December 29, 1953 – December 13, 2005) was an American gangster who co-founded and led the Crips gang in Los Angeles. He and Raymond Washington formed an alliance in 1971 that established the Crips as Los Angeles' first major African-American street gang.
Tiequon Cox stabbed Stanley Tookie Williams in 1988 while on death row. [3] This is depicted in the 2004 TV film Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story . On July 18, 2000, three inmates, regarded as some of San Quentin's most dangerous prisoners, almost escaped. [ 4 ]
Cochran defended 17-year-old Stanley Tookie Williams in a robbery trial in the early 1970s. [3] Williams was a known member of the Westside Crips street gang. [29] After less than 10 minutes of deliberation, a jury acquitted Williams of all charges.
Stanley "Tookie" Williams: convicted spree killer, co-founder and early leader of the Crips street gang. Author (several children's books about his experience at San Quentin [205]) and cause célèbre. Executed by lethal injection on December 13, 2005. [206] Clarence Ray Allen: convicted for ordering the killing of three people. At age 76, he ...
Barbara Cottman Becnel (born May 30, 1950) is an American author, journalist, and film producer. She was a close friend of Crips co-founder Stanley Williams (aka "Stan Tookie Williams"; a convicted murderer and former gang leader who would later become an anti-gang activist and writer), and editor of Williams's series of children's books, which spoke out against gang violence.
Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story is a 2004 American biographical crime drama television film directed by Vondie Curtis-Hall, written by J.T. Allen, and starring Jamie Foxx, Lynn Whitfield, Lee Thompson Young and CCH Pounder. [2] The film premiered at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, and was later broadcast on the FX network on April ...
The family of the youngest person ever executed in the state of Pennsylvania — a Black 16-year-old sent to the electric chair in 1931 and exonerated by the governor in 2022 — is suing the ...
Stanley Tookie Williams: Black 51 M December 13, 2005 Los Angeles: 4 murder victims [d] 13 Clarence Ray Allen: Native American 76 M January 17, 2006 Glenn: 4 murder ...