There are certain people, some who work for the United States government, some who support the United States government, who claim that no part of the United States government uses or participates in terrorism or torture.
They say the United States government does not condone such things, and is fighting wars to defeat such barbaric practices.
I beg to disagree.
Across this country, in death houses and death chambers, men and women have been terrorized and tortured and murdered by the state.
Here in this state of California, between the dates of December 17th, 2003 when the state set an execution date for me, and February 9th, 2004, when I came within three hours and forty-two minutes of being executed and received a stay of execution – I was terrorized.
There can be no doubt in anyone’s mind – despite what the state of California claimed, we have eyewitness accounts and we have proof that Stanley Tookie Williams was in fact horribly tortured, then murdered by the department of corrections of the State of California on December 13th, 2005.
These things that happened to me, and what happened to Big Tookie, did not happen to us in any country that this government calls a terrorist state or part of the axis of evil. It did not happen in Iran or Iraq, in Pakistan or Palestine, not in Afghanistan or Lebanon or North Korea.