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Williams, Stanley Tookie, 1953-2005

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Personal name headingWilliams, Stanley Tookie, 1953-2005
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Variant(s)Williams, Tookie, 1953-2005
Found inGangs and violence, 1996: CIP t.p. (Stanley "Tookie" Williams)
Wikipedia WWW site, Dec. 13, 2005 (Stanley Tookie Williams III; b. Dec. 29, 1953, New Orleans; executed Dec. 13, 2005, San Quentin State Prison, Calif.; co-founder, with Raymond Washington, of the widely known and notorious Crips street gangs; people sometimes mistakenly believe that "Tookie" is a nickname, but it is in fact his given middle name, which was shared by Williams and his father, Stanley T. Williams, Jr.)
New York times WWW site, Dec. 13, 2005 (Stanley Tookie Williams, aged 51; executed by lethal injection and pronounced dead at 12:35 this morning at San Quentin State Prison)
Washington post WWW site, Dec. 13, 2005 (Stanley Tookie Williams)
Los Angeles times WWW site, Dec. 13, 2005 (Stanley Tookie Williams)
San Francisco chronicle WWW site, Dec. 13, 2005 (Stanley Tookie Williams)