Letter to the editor

Gang leader’s actions merit death
penalty

After graduating from UCLA in 1998, I became a prosecutor. One
reason is so I can speak for victims of crime. Four crime victims
““ those murdered by Tookie Williams during two robberies
““ lost their voices forever (“Gang founder
shouldn’t die,” Nov. 28).

The only voices Justin Deitchman has heard are those of Snoop
Dogg and other celebrity criminal sympathizers. So Deitchman
probably doesn’t know that Williams killed his compliant,
unarmed victims by shotgunning them at close range.

He probably also doesn’t know that Williams later laughed
at the sounds his dying victims made, or that he planned to murder
guards to escape from custody, or that Williams continues to refuse
to debrief prison officials about the inner workings of prison
gangs.

Deitchman should use his brain instead of his bleeding heart to
answer his own question of why we need to kill Tookie.

Williams should be executed as punishment for murdering four
innocent people.

Michael C. MacNeil UCLA alumnus