Let us hope Mr. Williams got himself right with God before he met Him last night.

One should never rejoice in the shedding of blood, but Williams' execution was twenty-six years overdue. He brutally murdered four innocent people in cold blood. That is the bottom line. No repentence, no conversion, no children's books, and no celebrity pleas change what he did.

The State owes it to the law-abiding super-majority to execute murderers, showing that innocent life is of greater value and order will be preserved.

L.A. Crips gang founder executed in Calif.

Convicted killer Stanley Tookie Williams, the Crips gang co-founder whose case stirred a national debate about capital punishment versus the possibility of redemption, was executed early Tuesday.

Williams, 51, died at 12:35 a.m. Officials at San Quentin State Prison seemed to have trouble injecting the lethal mixture into his muscular arm. As they struggled to find a vein, Williams looked up repeatedly and appeared frustrated, shaking his head at supporters and other witnesses.

"You doing that right?" it sounded as if he asked one of the men with a needle.

May God have have mercy on his soul.