[Marxism] Max Sawicky, Marc Cooper and the late Tookie Williams

[Debordagoria <phantasmagorias@xxxxxxxxx>]

How would commuting his sentence to life in prison
have amounted to "nullifying" his conviction? Williams
may very well have been guilty of murder; his
biography certainly doesn't make it seem unlikely.
Given that the debate took place in the context of
popular support for the death penalty in the US, the
key issue was surely that lives would be saved if
Tookie could continue to do the work he had been
doing. And if that be granted, what reason could there
be for executing him, other than malice?
Michael D.

--- Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On his blog
> (<http://marccooper.com/>http://marccooper.com/),
> Cooper
> explains how Schwarzenegger?s hands were tied:
>
> ?William?s refusal ? rightly or wrongly­to admit his
> guilt for the brutal
> 1981 murders of four people made his commutation
> politically impossible.
> With every court in the land upholding Williams?
> conviction and guilt,
> Schwarzenegger would have been effectively
> nullifying their decision if he
> had decided to save Williams.?


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