A Marin judge on Monday dismissed a claim by the son of Stanley “Tookie” Williams, indicating the convicted gang leader who was executed at San Quentin State Prison freely signed a will naming a ...

A Marin judge dismissed a claim Monday by the son of Stanley “Tookie” Williams that the convicted gang leader’s will should be invalidated. Travon Williams, 33, claimed the will was drafted two days ...

The clock is ticking on what could be the last days of Stanley Tookie Williams' life. The man who co-founded the street gang, the Crips, scheduled to be executed in about two weeks for murdering four ...

One of the most frightening places I've been in the middle of a power outage is a tiny room inside the walls of San Quentin State Prison. I was padlocked inside the small room with a man I had never ...

CBS News Correspondent John Blackstone writes on how Stanley "Tookie" Williams went from brutal murderer to cause celebre. When Stanley "Tookie" Williams was sent to San Quentin in 1981 for four ...

JAMIE FOXX, ACTOR: I don't know if a lot of people really understand what he has done. He wrote on pieces of toilet paper books for children to read to tell them not to do some of the things that he ...

Celebrities from hip-hop star Snoop Dogg to motivational speaker Tony Robbins lamented the execution of Stanley Tookie Williams at a funeral Tuesday that drew hundreds to the violence-wracked area ...

The execution of Stanley “Tookie” Williams, convicted killer of four and Crips gang co-founder, ought not be the match thrown on the fiery debate over the death penalty. This page has been for the ...

Convicted murderer and Crips gang co-founder Stanley Tookie Williams awaits the result of a last-minute plea for clemency before his scheduled execution next week. His fate is now in the hands of ...

Poet Lucie Brock-Broido reads her poem “Of Tookie Williams” from her latest collection “Stay, Illusion.” Brock-Broido explained that the subject of her poem is Stanley “Tookie” Williams, one of the ...

Crips co-founder Tookie Williams faces execution in California on Dec. 13 unless the governor grants him clemency. Williams, convicted of four murders, has become a noted anti-gang crusader, writer of ...

Stanley Tookie Williams, the gang founder and convicted murderer who claims innocence, convinced over 50,000 people to sign petitions asking that he not be executed. But in the end, neither the courts ...