Too bad. So sad.

No clemency for Tookie:

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today rejected clemency for Stanley Tookie Williams, convicted murderer and one of the founders of the Crips.

The decision was announced moments after a federal appeals court in San Francisco turned down Williams's request for a stay of execution. Williams is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday.

"Clemency cases are always difficult and this one is no exception," Schwarzenegger said in a prepared statement.

"After studying the evidence, searching the history, listening to the arguments and wrestling with the profound consequences, I could find no justification for granting clemency."

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The governor's rejection of clemency was personally and politically difficult for Schwarzenegger, who has denied two pleas for clemency in other cases.

In one of those cases, Donald Beardslee, who was executed in January of this year, had actually confessed to the murders that put him on Death Row. Tookie has never taken responsibility for the four lives he snuffed out, although people have testified that he bragged about the murders in his own neighborhood, allegedly calling three of his Asian victims "Buddhaheads."

Look, I'm sure that the books Tookie wrote are swell and all that, but the man is a cold-blooded multiple murderer who has never shown the slightest bit of remorse for the people who he killed. It'll be interesting to see if he fesses up at the last minute, but I'm not holding my breath.