"; TookieWilliamsTimeline.appFooter = "Sources: StreetGangs.com; Office of the District Attorney, City of Los Angeles"; TookieWilliamsTimeline.appNavStyle = 3; TookieWilliamsTimeline.nLinkCols = 4; TookieWilliamsTimeline.sNavLinkStyle = "text-transform:uppercase;font-weight:bold;"; TookieWilliamsTimeline.appLayout = 1; TookieWilliamsTimeline.copyHeight = 400; TookieWilliamsTimeline.copyMargin = 9; TookieWilliamsTimeline[i++] = new Array("","","","http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/051212/051126_tookie_williams_vsml_7a.standard.jpg","","", "sub", "", "", "", "left", "", "Reuters", "298", "286", "#000000", "", "", "", ""); TookieWilliamsTimeline[i-1].body = "The self-proclaimed co-founder of the Crips street gang and convicted killer was executed on Dec. 13, 2005, for four murders committed in the 1970s.
Click above to learn more about his life with the Crips and his well-publicized efforts to make amends for his violent past that resulted in several nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize.";
TookieWilliamsTimeline[i++] = new Array("","","","","","", "", "", "", "", "left", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
TookieWilliamsTimeline[i-1].body = "
";
TookieWilliamsTimeline[i++] = new Array("","with the crips","","","","", "sub", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
TookieWilliamsTimeline[i++] = new Array("","December 1969","Los Angeles street gang, \"Crips\" members, display their signs for the photographer early in 1988. ","http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/051212/051212_crips.standard.jpg","","", "", "", "", "", "left", "", "AP", "235", "298", "#000000", "", "", "", "");
TookieWilliamsTimeline[i-1].body = "Raymond Washington, 15, starts a street gang, the Baby Avenues, at Fremont High School in Los Angeles. The gang name evolves into Avenue Cribs. By the early 1970s, the gang becomes known as the Crips.";
TookieWilliamsTimeline[i++] = new Array("","1971-72","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
TookieWilliamsTimeline[i-1].body = "Williams forms the West Side Crips in 1971 or 1972.";
TookieWilliamsTimeline[i++] = new Array("","Feb. 28, 1972","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
TookieWilliamsTimeline[i-1].body = "The Los Angeles Times chronicles the beating death of a man in South-Central Los Angeles by “boys and girls, 10 to 17 years old.” The piece mentions a new gang called, the Crips: “Gang members, to identify themselves, wear black gloves on their left hands and gold-colored earrings in their left ears, which are pierced, according to police. They sometimes carry canes, which they use as weapons.” No one is convicted of the slaying.";
TookieWilliamsTimeline[i++] = new Array("","murder","","","","", "sub", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
TookieWilliamsTimeline[i++] = new Array("","Feb. 28, 1979","Albert Owens","http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/051212/051212_tookie_owens.standard.jpg","","", "", "", "", "", "left", "", "AP file", "298", "235", "#000000", "", "", "", "");
TookieWilliamsTimeline[i-1].body = "Albert Owens, 26, is slain during a robbery at a 7-Eleven store in Pico Rivera, a town east of Los Angeles. Owens is found dead in a store room, shot twice in the back with a 12-gauge shotgun. The robbery nets $120. ";
TookieWilliamsTimeline[i++] = new Array("","March 11, 1979","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
TookieWilliamsTimeline[i-1].body = "Motel owners Tsai-Shai Yang, 63, her husband Yen-I Yang, 63, and their daughter Ye-Chen Li, 43, are killed during a robbery of the Brookhaven Motel on South Vermont Street in Los Angeles. The victims are shot at close-range with a 12-gauge shotgun. The robbery nets around $100.";
TookieWilliamsTimeline[i++] = new Array("","August 1979","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
TookieWilliamsTimeline[i-1].body = "Crips founder Raymond Washington is slain. No one is arrested. ";
TookieWilliamsTimeline[i++] = new Array("","March 13, 1981","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
TookieWilliamsTimeline[i-1].body = "Williams is found guilty for the first-degree murder and robbery of Albert Owens, the first-degree murders of Tsai-Shai Yang, Yen-I Yang and Ye-Chen Li, and the robbery of Tsai-Shai Yang. The jury also finds true the allegation that Williams personally used the shotgun in each murder.";
TookieWilliamsTimeline[i++] = new Array("","on death row","","","","", "sub", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
TookieWilliamsTimeline[i++] = new Array("","April 15, 1981","Williams in San Quentin at age 29.","http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/051208/051208_tookie_vmed.STANDARD.jpg","","", "", "", "", "", "left", "", "Williams family via AP", "298", "173", "#000000", "", "", "", "");
TookieWilliamsTimeline[i-1].body = "Williams is sentenced to death for the four murders. ";
TookieWilliamsTimeline[i++] = new Array("","April 11, 1988","A 29-year-old Stanley Tookie Williams poses in the exercise yard at San Quentin, Calif. Prison. ","","","", "", "", "", "", "left-NW", "", "", "298", "173", "", "", "", "", "");
TookieWilliamsTimeline[i-1].body = "The first habeas petition filed by Williams is denied by California Supreme Court. Williams files three more state petitions and one federal petition as well as several petitions to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals through October 2005. Each is denied.";
TookieWilliamsTimeline[i++] = new Array("","Oct. 19, 1988","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
TookieWilliamsTimeline[i-1].body = "Williams is transferred to solitary confinement in San Quentin Prison where he spends the next six years for ordering the stabbing of another inmate. Prison officials accuse Williams of attacking inmates and guards and leading Crips operations from inside prison. It is during this solitary confinement, according to Williams, where he decides to redeem himself.";
TookieWilliamsTimeline[i++] = new Array("","1992","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
TookieWilliamsTimeline[i-1].body = "Writer Barbara Becnel first visits Williams at San Quentin while researching an article on black gangs for Essence Magazine. Becnel will play a large role in Williams’ newfound public activity as an anti-gang spokesman, arranging for Williams’ speeches to youth groups and editing his series of children’s books. Becnel also negotiates the deal for “Redemption,” a 2004 film on Williams’ life starring Jamie Foxx.";
TookieWilliamsTimeline[i++] = new Array("","April 1993","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
TookieWilliamsTimeline[i-1].body = "A videotaped message from Williams is shown to a group of 400 gang members at a gang summit in Watts that eventually leads to a citywide gang truce. ";
TookieWilliamsTimeline[i++] = new Array("","1996-1997","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
TookieWilliamsTimeline[i-1].body = "PowerKids Press publishes several children’s books and one middle school book written by Williams. The books describe Williams’ gang and prison experience and encourage children to stay away from gangs and violence. ";
TookieWilliamsTimeline[i++] = new Array("","1998","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
TookieWilliamsTimeline[i-1].body = "Williams helps establish an afterschool violence prevention program called Internet Project for Street Peace.";
TookieWilliamsTimeline[i++] = new Array("","Nov. 18, 2000","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
TookieWilliamsTimeline[i-1].body = "Williams is nominated by Swiss Parliamentarian Mario Fehr for the Nobel Peace Prize. It is the first of several nominations over the following years. ";
TookieWilliamsTimeline[i++] = new Array("","Feb. 2, 2005","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
TookieWilliamsTimeline[i-1].body = "The Ninth Circuit Court rejects Williams' last appeal, but urges the governor to grant clemency. ";
TookieWilliamsTimeline[i++] = new Array("","Aug. 3, 2005","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
TookieWilliamsTimeline[i-1].body = "Williams is awarded the President’s Call to Service Award and receives a letter from President George W. Bush. A government spokesman later admits that the President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation did not know of Williams past. ";
TookieWilliamsTimeline[i++] = new Array("","Oct. 11, 2005","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
TookieWilliamsTimeline[i-1].body = "U.S. Supreme Court denies Williams petition for appeal clearing the way for California to set the execution date. ";
TookieWilliamsTimeline[i++] = new Array("","Oct. 24, 2005","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
TookieWilliamsTimeline[i-1].body = "Williams’ execution date of Dec. 13, 2005, is set. ";
TookieWilliamsTimeline[i++] = new Array("","Dec. 13, 2005","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
TookieWilliamsTimeline[i-1].body = "After exhausting all appeals and his bid for clemency is rejected by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Williams is executed by lethal injection at San Quentin State Prison.";
// END editorial data