Tookie Williams: Last Ditch Appeal Filed

Tookie Williams ' lawyers have not given up - they've filed an appeal with the US Supreme Court as a final appeal to delay his execution as scheduled for tonight:

CNN.com - Killer's lawyers file last-ditch appeal - Dec 12, 2005 SACRAMENTO, California (CNN) -- Hours after California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger denied clemency Monday for convicted killer Stanley Tookie Williams, lawyers for the Crips street gang co-founder filed a last-ditch appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court for a stay of execution.

Unless the Supreme Court intervenes, Williams is scheduled to die by injection at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday (3:01 a.m. ET) at San Quentin State Prison, near San Francisco.

Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, who met with Williams earlier in the day, criticized Schwarzenegger for deciding not to spare Williams.