Mr. FOXX: OK. Here's the thing: The minute that you shake somebody's hand like Stanley "Tookie" Williams, you have to know that you're going to be connected with him.

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There is one man who can stop the execution, a man who Tookie met 30 years ago when they were both bodybuilders and who is now governor of California - Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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Ms. LITHWICK: Well, what he says is he's very concerned, and it's important to bear in mind he has rejected such claims before, he's saying that recent accounts of death row inmates who suffer episodes of very heavy breathing, of heaving chests, long, long periods of time when it's clear that they are not yet anesthetized, concerns him, and he cited specifically the Stanley Tookie Williams execution.

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