Lawyer seeking lifeline for Tookie
published: Monday | December 12, 2005

TOOKIE

LOS ANGELES, U.S.A. (AP):

A lawyer for convicted murderer Stanley Tookie Williams asked the state Supreme Court to stay his execution, saying the Crips gang co-founder should have been allowed to argue that someone else killed one of his four alleged victims.

Attorney Verna Wefald filed a petition Saturday challenging the validity of the four convictions and death sentences given in 1981 to Williams, who is scheduled to die tomorrow at San Quentin State Prison. She also filed an emergency request seeking a stay, the Los Angeles Times reported.