Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story(2004)

movie - first aired/released 2004-01-21 - audience 6.0

Directed by Vondie Curtis-Hall

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.