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Stanley Tookie Williams is set to be executed on Dec. 13.  He is currently seeking clemency from The Governator (TM).  Williams helped to form the Crips in Los Angeles several decades ago.  Since his conviction he has been tirelessly working to decrease youth crime and against gangs.

A bevy of Nobel laureates and celebrities have written a letter urging Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to commute the death sentence of Stanley Tookie Williams, himself a Nobel Peace Prize nominee.

Williams, 51, the co-founder of the Crips gang convicted of four 1979 murders, is scheduled to be executed at San Quentin State Prison on Dec. 13.

The letter praises Williams’ work as an anti-gang crusader, including writing children’s books.

“Each year at the holiday season voices the world over cry out for peace,” states the letter to the governor. “This year, one of them, a voice of great power, will be lost unless you act.”

Among the signatories of the letter are Nobel Laureates Archbishop Desmond Tutu; Irene Kahn, secretary general of Amnesty International; and Mairead Corrigan Maguire, who founded the Community of the Peace People in 1976. SF Chronicle

Personally, I’m against the death penalty in principle.  Now, in practicality, Williams has an opportunity to do good.  Why not let him?