Bloggers are weighing in on Tookie Williams' execution Tuesday morning. They are also outraged that a deceased U.S. soldier was reportedly sent home as freight and amused that Chris Wallace supposedly said his dad Mike has lost it.

No clemency: Stanley "Tookie" Williams was executed by lethal injection in San Francisco's San Quentin prison early this morning after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger rejected a bid for clemency by Williams, a Crips co-founder and convicted murderer whose subsequent anti-violence activism won him an international following.

Williams' status as a cause célèbre didn't extend to the blogosphere, even among dealth-penalty opponents. At Washington Monthly, Political Animal Kevin Drum writes:  "Regardless of what he's done since, the man was a gangster and a thug and hardly deserving of our sympathy." Liberal Atrios is pragmatic:  "I'm against (the death penalty) for numerous reasons ... but I really can't quite see how Stanley Williams is really the poster child for the cause."

Author and Vanity Fair columnist James Wolcott, however, is disgusted with the Governator and blames politics: "I held out the fugitive hope that the moderate side of Schwarzenegger might prevail as his wife tugged him in the direction of leniency and mercy. What a fool I am. ... Capital punishment must be de-politicized, and as long as politicians make the final decision, depoliticization is impossible. So abolish it."

But this reaction by Ace of Ace of Spades is more typical: "It's a strange compulsion of the radical left to excuse the worst of all crimes -- murder -- simply because someone may have a bit of creative talent or literary potential. Tookie Williams murdered at least four people. But he wrote a children's book. This absolves his sins?"

At Captain's Quarters, Ed Morrissey has a thoughtful post explaining why he's OK with this execution despite his opposition to death penalty on religious and practical grounds: "So why am I not up in arms about Tookie? As I wrote earlier, the people of California decided that they do want the death penalty. ... One day, perhaps, they will change their mind and commute the sentences of people like Williams to LWOP [life without parole]. Until then, the people deserve to get the justice they've chosen."

The next death-row dispute gaining attention is that of Mississippian Cory Maye. On this one, both Atrios and Drum think there's a real case to be made. Washington Monthly and Crooked Timber both link to a blow-by-blow breakdown of the Maye case on libertarian Radley Balko's blog The Agitator.

There's a detailed log of events before and after Williams' execution on Ordinary Everyday Christian. It includes personal observations from several media witnesses, several of whom were haunted by, among other things, the 12-minute search for a vein in Williams' left arm.

Read more about the Williams execution.

Wallace vs. Wallace: Fox News Sunday anchorman Chris Wallace—son of 60 Minutes star Mike Wallace—has been quoted saying his father has "lost it." The younger Wallace was responding to a Boston Globe interview with his father in which the veteran newsman criticized President Bush.