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Thursday, December 15, 2005
Execution Ignites New Fire in Death Penalty Debate
Candles outside San Quentin State Prison, where Stanley Tookie Williams was executed Tuesday after a high-profile campaign to save him.
The New York Times reports "as plans were under way to hold a large public funeral for Stanley Tookie Williams, the former gangster executed by lethal injection early Tuesday morning, and scatter his ashes in South Africa, his death was stirring fresh passion on both sides of the debate over capital punishment in California."
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