Key dates in Stanley Tookie Williams case
Associated Press
_ Dec. 29, 1953: Stanley Tookie Williams III born in New Orleans.
_ 1959: Williams and his mother move to Los Angeles.
_ 1971: Williams and high school friend, Raymond Washington, co-found Crips gang in Los Angeles. Washington shot and killed in August 1979.
_ Feb. 28, 1979: Albert Owens, 26, a 7-Eleven clerk in Whittier, shot twice in the back.
_ March 11, 1979: Yen-I Yang, 76, his wife, Tsai-Shai Yang, 63, and their visiting daughter, Yee-Chen Lin, 43, fatally shot during a robbery at their Brookhaven Motel in Los Angeles.
_ March 15, 1979: Williams arrested.
_ April 5, 1981: Williams sentenced to death in a Torrance, Calif., courtroom for four counts of first-degree murder in the slayings.
_ Feb. 2, 2005: 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals issues final denial for rehearing the case.
_ Oct. 11, 2005: U.S. Supreme Court denies final petition.
_ Nov. 30, 2005: California Supreme Court refuses to reopen case.
_ Dec. 8, 2005: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger holds private clemency hearing with prosecutors and defense lawyers.
_ Dec. 13, 2005: Williams scheduled to die by lethal injection at 12:01 a.m.
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Sources: "Blue Rage, Black Redemption: A Memoir" by Stanley Tookie Williams, the California attorney general's office, court documents.
