Stanley `` Tookie '' Williams III ( December 29 , 1953 -- December 13 , 2005 ) was an American gang member and convicted murderer , who was part of the West Side Crips , a street gang which has its roots in South Central Los Angeles in 1969 . On December 13 , 2005 , Williams was executed by lethal injection after clemency and a four-week stay of execution were both rejected by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger , amid debate over the death penalty . Williams was the second inmate in California to be executed in 2005 .
2005 was the year Stanley Williams was executed.