"Text 4 Tookie" - to save Stanley "Tookie" Williams from death row

In what is a first, text messaging will be used to help save the life of death row inmate

Stanley "Tookie" Williams is scheduled to be executed on December 13th, 2005. He has been condemned to die for four first-degree murder convictions during two 1979 robberies in Los Angeles County.

Premium SMS provider SmartSMS has set up the "Text 4 Tookie" campaign to allow supporters to petition California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to commute the death sentence to permanent life imprisonment via their cell phones using Premium SMS Services. [Press release]

Crips street gang co-founder Stanley “Tookie” Williams has authored nine books against gang violence since 1996 and, in the process, been nominated for a Nobel Prize seven times – four times for the Peace Prize and three times for the Literature Prize. His life has become the subject for Redemption (2004), a major HBO motion picture starring Jamie Fox [from the Pan African Studies Department of California State University]

emily | 7:03 PM | SMS and Politics |
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