One of the most different ways the Saddam and Tookie contrast is that they both had drastically different personalities while looked up. While both spread fear and hatred around their reigns of terror, their tones of attitude changed drastically while looked up.
While looked up Saddam still seemed confident but he had very strange behaviors. Instead of appreciating the treadmill the guards gave him, he requested for a ping pong table. He enjoyed Cheetos and devoured a bag Doritos once he preferred Raisin Bran Crunch to Fruit Loops. His guardsman Sean O'Shea says that Saddam was obsessed with cleanliness and developed a love of plants. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4112164.stm) Very strange for a man who wanted hundreds upon thousands dead, right? Well in mind I think so. Or maybe be locked up really made Saddam insane.
Meanwhile in jail Stanley "Tookie" Williams started to feel bad for all the things he did to not just his community but the whole state of California. The Crips gang grew to many surrounding cities around sunny L.A. Thus came an editors idea for Tookie to write his story to prevent urban youths from joining gangs. I personally think his attempts failed. Gang related crimes in recent years haven't gone down.
Before Saddam was executed this is the statement he makes but is interrupted by his death:"I bear witness that there is no god but God and I testify that Mohammed is the Messenger of God. I bear witness that there is no god but God and I testify that Mohammed..." Needless to say it seems that he stands righteously on all the actions that lead him to his death.
Yet Tookie's last words are quite different. One of his many last words included "I often tell people that I didn't have a 360-degree turnaround; I had a 720-degree turnaround." Talk about an overstatement. It seems that he believed that his life was completely changed while in prison, unlike Saddam.
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