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SAN QUENTIN, California - 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 ...

Deputy City Attorney Brooke White began a recently filed court motion with the words “There is something terribly wrong in Oakwood.” That is about the only thing widely agreed upon in what’s become, ...

SAN FRANCISCO - 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 ...

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. — Crips gang co-founder Stanley Tookie Williams maintained his innocence right up until his death, even when an admission of guilt might have spared him execution for killing four ...

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — A former leader of a violent suburban New York street gang has been sentenced to three consecutive life sentences plus 145 years. Raphael Osborne also is known as Gusto. He ...