Justices decline to block Williams' execution

Stanley Tookie Williams, co-founder of the Crips street gang, moved a step closer to the death chamber when the California Supreme Court refused to reopen his case in four murders and halt the state’s highest-profile execution since the death penalty was reinstated nearly three decades ago.

In a last-ditch legal move, Williams alleged that shoddy forensic testing and other errors wrongly sent him to San Quentin State Prison, where he is scheduled die by lethal injection on December 13.