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Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story (2004)

Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story (2004)

Drama Crime TV Movie
Release Date: 2004, January 21
Directors: Vondie Curtis-Hall
Countries: United States of America
Cast: CCH Pounder, Jamie Foxx, Dan Duran, Laura de Carteret, Martin Roach, J.C. Kenny, Arnold Pinnock, Karl Campbell, Rosemary Dunsmore, Joseph Pierre, Tommy Chang, Liz West

Overview:

Redemption tells the story of Stan "Tookie" Williams, founder of the Crips L.A. street gang. Story follows his fall into gang-banging, his prison term, and his work writing children's novels encouraging peace and anti-violence resolutions which earned him multiple Nobel Peace Prize nominations. After exhausting all forms of appeal, Tookie was executed by lethal injection.

Keywords:

street gang