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Tookie there had some powerful friends, and had been saying the right things for 10-20 years or more. Whether he meant them or not is another matter; but he got some people to speak for him. Clarence Allan Ray is a mean and violent, someone who has done violence and arranged for others to do it on his behalf even after he went to prison for murder. He never said he was sorry in any way that resonated with anyone emotionally. The only ones out there for his execution will be those who oppose all death penalties on principle.
And there are a lot of those. I can't remember the names exactly, but there have been rather large protests and turnouts about the execution of a couple of unappealing white guys in California in recent years. The racial angle on this is mainly b.s.
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