But his execution was a macabre spectacle in a nation that preaches godly virtue to the world while resisting a global march away from the Medieval practice of capital punishment. (sorry, LA Times, free registration required)
It is a very telling world when even the people who believe in Williams's guilt think he shouldn't have been put to death.
I am against the death penalty for many reasons, the most important of which is that you shouldn't punish a crime with the action of the crime. I only recently learned about Stanley Williams and I think he could have continued to do a lot of good preaching against gang violence.