Stanley "Tookie" Williams, co-founder of the notorious street gang The Crips, found out today that his execution at San Quentin has been set for Dec. 13. He is on Death Row for the murder of four people in 1979, but recently has been nominated for a Nobel Prize and played by Jamie Foxx on TV. After today's Los Angeles court hearing, actor Mike Farrell called on Gov. Schwarzenegger to grant clemency.
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