Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story
Mar 03 2004
•2h 35m
•Crime, Drama, TV Movie
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.
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Jamie Foxx
Stan 'Tookie' Williams
Lynn Whitfield
Barbara Becnel
Lee Thompson Young
Charles Becnel
Brenden Jefferson
Young Stan Williams
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