Stanley Tookie Williams

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[quote name='Cam42' date='Dec 13 2005, 09:35 AM']And just how do you reconcile that viewpoint with the accepted Catholic catechetical teaching?  And how would you answer the questions that I posed to toledo_jesus, in an informed and complete manner?

Here is said teaching:
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Cam, just so you know, they aren't contradictory as you keep posing them.

The Church says one is a good and the other is a higher good.

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[quote]But throughout, prosecutors and prison officials have said they doubt his sincerity. They say he has refused to tell them all he knows about the street gang he co-founded, the notorious Crips.

He was convicted of four brutal killings during robberies of just a few dollars at a convenience store and a motel. He has always claimed he is innocent. [/quote]

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[quote]The transcripts of Williams 1981 trial paint a disturbing picture of the former Crips gang leader, who was convicted of shooting four people to death with a shotgun during two robberies, later boasting about the gurgling sounds convenience store clerk Albert Owens made as he died.

During the trial, prosecutors say, Williams plotted to kill a sheriff's deputy and an accomplice who was expected to testify against him, then blow up a bus full of inmates with dynamite to escape in the resulting chaos.

After the jury read their guilty verdict Williams, according to transcripts, looked to jurors and mouthed: "I'm going to get each and every one of you motherf------."[/quote]