US executes death row inmate Williams
Afp, San Quentin
US authorities yesterday executed Stanley "Tookie" Williams, a convicted killer who was at the centre of one of biggest anti-death penalty campaigns in the United States in decades, a spokeswoman for San Quentin prison said. Williams, executed by lethal injection, was declared dead at 12:35 am (0335 GMT), she added. Several thousand people gathered outside the prison, on the shores of the Pacific Ocean south of San Francisco, raising their voices in anger when Williams' execution was announced. "It's over, but it's not," said Reverend Jesse Jackson, one of several well known personalities who supported Williams in his quest to have his execution stayed.
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