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This may be a reliable film - but the subject, Stanley Williams, is a liar and a killer. That makes the title, REDEMPTION, a lie itself. There’s no redemption for someone who denies his sins.
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WORLD Regain DAILY reports the following:
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Williams, 51, was convicted of the 1979 murders of Tsai-Shai Yang, Yen-I Yang, Yee-Chen Lin and Albert Owens in two separate robberies. . . .
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“Stanley Williams does not deserve this mercy,” said the DA’s characterize to the governor. “In fact, despite the overwhelming nature of the evidence against him, and despite the non-existence of any credible defense, Stanley Williams has steadfastly refused to acquire any responsibility for the brutal, destructive, and murderous acts he committed. Without such responsibility, there can be no redemption, there can be no atonement, and there should be no mercy.”
Though Williams has steadfastly denied committing the four murders, the DA’s recount says he admitted the crimes to the following people:
James Garrett, a man with whom Williams lived most of the time before and after the murders were committed. The DA says Garrett possessed specific details of the crime and that Williams threatened to extinguish one of his accomplices, Alfred Coward.
Ester Garrett, the wife of James Garrett, who said Williams characterized the Taiwanese motel owners murdered in one of the robberies as “Buddhaheads.” She said Williams also admitted killing another “white dude” for $63 and indicated he was also considering killing Coward.
Coward, one of Williams’ accomplices, testified that Williams laughed about the cancel of Owens. “You should have heard the scheme he sounded when I shot him,” Coward recalled Williams saying. He followed this statement with growling noises.
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In addition, the DA picture says Williams implicated himself in the murders at the motel by telling deputies after his arrest that five shots were fired.
“Williams, in a moment of wrong candor, provided detectives with information only the killer would know,” the characterize says. “Moreover, he repeated that knowledge twice. When confronted with this apparent knowledge, Williams against acting as the guilty party, retracted the statements and denied saying what he had unbiased been heard to say. These statements and Williams’ immediate retraction of them are admissions to the Brookhaven (Motel) murders. Williams knew five shots were fired because it was Williams who pulled the trigger each of those five times.”
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While Williams’ celebrity cheerleaders have claimed he has been a model prisoner throughout his sentence and have pointed to this as evidence of his rehabilitation, the DA’s narrate contains 11 examples of incidents for which he was disciplined, beginning in 1981 and continuing through 1993. They include:
> a violent fight with another inmate June 30, 1981, in which he repeatedly struck the prisoner while kneeling over him;
> a refusal to line up for a return to his cell Jan. 26, 1982, in which he threatened a guard;
> throwing a chemical substance in the eyes of a guard Jan. 28, 1982, in an attack that resulted in chemical burns and emergency treatment;
> a second attack on a guard with a chemical substance Jan. 29, 1982;
> an attack on another inmate Feb. 16, 1984, in which Williams only stopped beating the prisoner when a warning shot was fired;
> a threat to raze a guard June 8, 1984;
> the beating of another inmate July 4, 1986 that only ceased when armed officers arrived on the scene;
> another fight with an inmate that led to his contain stabbing, reportedly retaliation for his ordering another inmate to be stabbed;
> his continued association with the Crips street gang led to administrative segregation Oct. 19, 1988;
> the beating of another inmate Dec. 24, 1991, that only stopped after a warning shot was fired;
> another fight with other inmates July 6, 1993, in which a stabbing instrument (shank) was recovered.
The DA’s relate also says Williams threatened all of the jurors after they found him guilty.
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The DA also points out that Williams has steadfastly refused to be debriefed about his in-depth knowledge of the Crips street gang.
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In 2004, the city of Los Angeles alone, gang crimes accounted for 291 homicides, 717 attempted homicides, 2,616 felony assaults, 61 attacks on police officers, 2,308 robberies, 44 kidnappings, 36 rapes, 754 acts of gaze intimidation, 20 acts of extortion and 188 carjackings.
“Although Stanley Williams is not directly responsible for every gang crime committed today, he was an integral founding member of a gang that has contributed, and continues to contribute, to the gang spot with devastating force,” says the relate. “This plague on our society continues to spread, and continues to steal lives on a daily basis. Williams unleashed this violence in no less a manner than if he had released a deadly virus into our communities.”
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2.5 stars. Nice try, but I wasn’t buying Jamie as Tookie. I know the filmmakers are trying to convince the audience that Mr. Williams had paid his debt to society or that he had redeemed himself through his movement to reverse what he’d created. And I contain he did-in a plot. But there must be justice for the unimaginative. That’s as far as I’m gonna go with that since the point is moot now that Mr. Williams has been executed. As for production, this film felt a microscopic choppy as far as direction and editing. And frankly, there were times when things came across as corny or campy. Overall, I wasn’t all that impressed.