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.

BBC: NEWS | Americas | Reformed gang leader awaits death

The bodybuilder who terrorised 1970s South Central Los Angeles with his "Crips" gang will be strapped to a medical table, and a lethal injection will bring Stanley "Tookie" Williams' 24 years on death row to an end.

BBC: NEWS | Americas | Reformed gang leader awaits death