US Ex-Gang Boss Executed

World | December 13, 2005, Tuesday // 00:00

Former gang leader Stanley "Tookie" Williams has been executed by lethal injection, 24 years after he was convicted of killing four people. Several hundred of his supporters gathered outside San Quentin prison, north of San Francisco, where he was declared dead at 00.35. Williams, 51, while acknowledging he had a violent past, had maintained he was innocent in the slayings and, while in jail, campaigned against gang violence.

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