Williams was not convicted by an all white jury. The defense of Williams shamelessly perpetuates this lie trying to cry 'racism' when all else fails, in spite of open records that show multiple conflicting defense tactics.

SF Chronicle reports: (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/12/01/EDG5TG04SF1.DTL&hw=tookie&sn=001&sc=1000)
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. . . the Death Row inmate claimed in an interview Monday with MSNBC's fatuous Rita Cosby that he was convicted by an "all-white jury." That's not true, and Williams knows it.

In fact, Williams' own clemency lawyers have stipulated that the jury that convicted him in the 1979 murders of Albert Owens, Yen-I Yang, Tsai-Shai Yang and Yee Chen Lin during two armed robberies was not all-white. In the clemency petition, Williams' latest set of lawyers argued that prosecutor Robert Martin had kicked all African Americans off the jury. When prosecutors produced a death certificate that showed that juror William McLurkin was black, the lawyers noted in a reply that it doesn't matter if McLurkin was black or part-black, because he "looked Filipino."

Hello. That's not white. Williams' own Web site (www.tookie.com) features a fact sheet that, while asserting that no African Americans were on the jury, stipulates a Filipino and Latino served on the jury.

. . . "Let me add a few things you may not know: The not all-white jury convicted Williams after his alibi defense crumbled. Also, jurors had learned of Williams' plans for an armed escape from jail. The jury foreman testified that when the guilty verdict was announced, Williams mouthed this threat to the panel: "I'm going to get each and every one of you mother -- ."

Over the years as he appealed his conviction, his appellate lawyers claimed that Williams did not receive adequate counsel because his trial lawyer did not use a diminished capacity defense, as Williams was brain-damaged -- due to drug abuse, mental illness and head injuries. An appellate judge weighed in, "A mental-state defense would have contradicted (the alibi) defense by conceding petitioner's presence at the scenes of the murders." Despite numerous appeals, various courts -- including the liberal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals -- continued to uphold his conviction.

His lawyers now laud Williams because he "refuses to make a false confession, knowing it could benefit him penally, (which) shows the strength of his character." What, then, of his character on the brain-damage dodge -- an odd defense for a man whom supporters hail as a jailhouse philosopher and co-author of children's books?

I think that he should be release due to the years he surve why because he is human as any body else.He should be on house arrest or he should have vote from the gov.He suffered enough hail from the court and death row.Give the man a chance to speak for him self and hear his sied of the story,and his opion it want hurt to listen.Black and white is nothing but a skin color.as man once said let it be as it should and it shall be the truth.

Flip the switch already!!!!

this is bogus as hell even though he killed long ago in the past no one seems to care about the good things he's done.

the speakings that he used in his messages to kids were so powerful that they stopped wars does that count for any thing at all.

arnold used to be my favorite actor and alot more people than me looked up to him, but for him to not care at all about a person's life is just rediculus. he's supposed to be a leader but it seems to me that all he's done so far was talk.

really what im trying to get at is what has he really done. tookie has done more locked up than arnold has done being a leader. next time schwarzeneger think about something before you past judgement