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Crips gang co-founder and convicted murderer Stanley Tookie Williams died at 12:35 AM Tuesday morning after being executed by lethal injection at California's San Quentin State Prison. The execution occurred a day after California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger...

AP is reporting that California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has refused to grant clemency to Crips gang co-founder and convicted murderer Stanley Tookie Williams , set to be executed just after midnight tonight. In denying clemency,...

In a 6-0 vote, the California Supreme Court late Sunday refused to halt the execution of co-founder Crips gang co-founder and convicted killer Stanley Tookie Williams . Williams was convicted of killing four people during two...

Bruce Gordon , president and chief executive of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on Tuesday urged that death row inmate and convicted killer Stanley Tookie Williams ...

Representatives of the NAACP and the ACLU Voting Rights Project testified before the US House Judiciary Committee Wednesday as to how Congress should modify the Voting Rights Act ...

Several rights groups and two African-American registered Georgia voters have filed a lawsuit challenging a Georgia law that requires voters to show government-issued photo identification at the polls....

Leading Monday's states brief, opponents of a recently approved Georgia voter identification law are expected to announce the filing of a federal lawsuit this week. The bill calls for voters to have photo identification and was recently...

The American Civil Liberties Union charged Friday that Georgia had raised the fees for its new controversial voter ID cards without notice to the US Justice Department as required under federal law. The...

Select provisions of the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965 are scheduled to expire in 2007, and activists disagree on whether or not they should be made permanent. The most debated provision is one that requires certain...

The NAACP , the largest civil rights organization in the United States, has picked Bruce Gordon, formerly an executive with Verizon , to succeed Kweisi Mfume as its leader. An official announcement is expected...