Tookie Williams

Tookie Williams was a former death row inmate who was executed in 2005 for the murder of two convenience store clerks. However, Williams had also been a vocal advocate for the abolition of the death penalty and had written a book about his experiences on death row. He was a prominent figure in the movement to end the death penalty in California and had been a vocal critic of the state's prison system. Williams was born in 1955 in Los Angeles, California.