Associated Press

_ Dec. 29, 1953: Stanley Tookie Williams III born in New Orleans.

_ 1959: Williams and his mother move to Los Angeles.

_ 1971: Williams and high school friend, Raymond Washington, co-found Crips gang in Los Angeles. Washington was shot and killed in August 1979.

_ Feb. 28, 1979: Albert Owens, 26, a 7-Eleven clerk in Whittier, was shot twice in the back.

_ March 11, 1979: Yen-I Yang, 76, his wife, Tsai-Shai Yang, 63, and their visiting daughter, Yee-Chen Lin, 43, were fatally shot during a robbery at their Brookhaven Motel in Los Angeles.

_ March 15, 1979: Williams arrested.

_ April 5, 1981: Williams sentenced to death in a Torrance, Calif. courtroom for four counts of first-degree murder.

_ Feb. 2, 2005: 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals issues final denial for rehearing the case.

_ Oct. 11, 2005: U.S. Supreme Court denies final petition.

_ Nov. 30, 2005: California Supreme Court refuses to reopen case.

_ Dec. 8, 2005: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger holds private clemency hearing with prosecutors and defense lawyers.

_ Dec. 13, 2005: Williams scheduled to die by lethal injection at 12:01 a.m.

Sources: "Blue Rage, Black Redemption: A Memoir" by Stanley Tookie Williams, the California attorney general's office, court documents.