Stanley "Tookie" Williams - founder LA crips street gang - murdered 4 people - 1979
2001 - nominated for Noble Peace Prize
2004 award winning TV movie - Redemption: The Stan "Tookie" Williams Story
8/5/05 - received The President's Call to Service Award - signed by President Bush
12/13/05 - executed

	Life in Prison by Stanley Tookie Williams		Gangs and Weapons by Stanley Tookie Williams
	Blue Rage, Black Redemption: A Memoir by Stanley Tookie Williams posthumos edition		Redemption: From Original Gangster to Nobel Prize Nominee The Extrordinary Life Story of Stanley Tookie Williams by Stanley Tookie Williams

Tommy Lynn Sells - Coast to Coast Killer Through the Window: The Terrifying True Story of Cross-Country Killer Tommy Lynn Sells by Diane Fanning

J. S. Woodford - Warden (a) the safety of the gas chamber has been verified.

Governor George H. Ryan - Jan 2003 final act as governor - cleared death row 4 death row inmates pardoned 167 remaining inmates awaiting execution - commuted to life in prison The Man Who Emptied Death Row: Governor George Ryan and the Politics of Crime by James L. Merriner

George H. Ryan - federal inmate #16627-424
UPDATE 9/6/06:  former Gov. Ryan convicted on federal corruption charges
including: racketeering, bribery, extortion, money laundering and tax fraud
11/7/07 - began serving a 6 & a half year sentence - Federal Prison, Terre Haute, Indiana

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