"Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, who visited with [Stanley Tookey] Williams, said [Governor Arnold] Schwarzenegger decided 'to choose revenge over redemption and to use Tookie Williams as a trophy in the flawed system.'
'To kill him is a way of making politicians look tough,' Jackson said. 'It does not make it right. It does not make any of us safer. It does not make any of us more secure.'"
From CNN article "Warden: Williams 'frustrated' by execution's slow pace" posted Tuesday, December 13, 2005; Posted: 8:48 a.m. EST (13:48 GMT).
