Timeline: Tookie's Path to Death Row
Date: 12/12/05 - NPR.org, December 9, 2005 · Follow a timeline of Stanley Tookie Williams' life from his birth to the Dec. 13 date set for his execution by lethal injection: Dec...
NPR.org, December 9, 2005 · Follow a timeline of Stanley Tookie Williams' life from his birth to the Dec. 13 date set for his execution by lethal injection: Dec. 29, 1953 -- Stanley Tookie Williams III is born in New Orleans Charity Hospital to a 17-year-old mother and a father who deserted the family before Williams' first birthday, according to his autobiography, Blue Rage, Black Redemption. 1959 -- Williams and his mother ride a Greyhound bus to California and settle in an apartment in South-Central Los Angeles. Williams recalls it as an affluent-looking neighborhood -- "a shiny red apple rotting away at the core."
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