Tookie Williams Execution

04.04.2012

Hi guys,

today I had you watch a news report dealing with the death of Tookie Williams. You can watch it again below:

Here is what we said about it:

THE DEBATE OVER THE DEATH SENTENCE

                The document is a news report about Tookie Williams, a former gand leader who was accused of murdering 4 people by the State of California.
He was sentenced to death and waited 24 years on death row. He was poisoned (by lethal injection). There was a demonstration in front of the jail with people who were for his death and people who defended him. They held placards with the words : "Save Tookie Williams", "Shame on US", "Save Stan"... and they said California "killed an innocent man".

   Why was he sentenced to death?
Because he killed 4 people and he never admitted he was guilty.
He never repented his crimes.

HW:

- pour mercredi 11/04: vous devez faire des recherches sur des prisoniers actuellement dans le couloir de la mort aux USA et trouver autant d'informations possibles sur eux (temps passé en prison, raison de l'emprisonnement, détails des circonstances qui ont amené au crime, ...). Vous devrez rapporter les coupures de journaux et / ou articles en classe + être capable de présenter le prisonier à l'oral.

Voici la liste des noms de prisonier que vous pouvez étudier:

May



5/16/2012	Samuel Lopez	Arizona
5/16/2012	Steven Staley	Texas
June
6/6/2012	Bobby Hines	Texas
6/6/2012	Abdul Awkal	Ohio
July
7/26/2012	John Eley	Ohio
August
8/1//2012	Marcus Druery	Texas
September
9/9-15/2012	Rodney Berget	South Dakota
9/20/2012	Donald Palmer	Ohio

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