And one week after his execution, a funeral service was held for Stanley “Tookie” Williams Tuesday. A standing-room only crowd of over 1500 people packed the Bethel A.M.E. Church in Los Angeles while hundreds more filled the streets outside. A co-founder of one of the country’s most notorious street gangs, the Crips, Williams spent 24 years on death row after being convicted of four murders. During this period he became a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, children’s author and a vocal advocate against gang violence. He maintained his innocence up until his death. The service lasted over four hours. Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan gave the eulogy.

• Louis Farrakhan: “That man was touched by a supreme power, and any of us that were ever in his presence, we new that. Whether we were Christian, or Moslem, or Jewish, or Black or White or Hispanic, or of no particular religious persuasion. We knew when we met him we met a man, profoundly moved by higher principles.”

Rap artist Snoop Dogg read a poem he wrote for Tookie Williams.

• Snoop Dogg: “It’s 11:35, my face is stone, I’m in a zone, driving home, praying all alone. I make it home, kiss my kids, I hug my wife, and I ask God one more time to please spare Stanley Tookie’s life. It’s 12:13, 12:35, and I shed a tear, because you were so dear to me. Until we meet again. Until we meet again, I promise the whole world will know that Stanley Tookie Williams, do you hear me? Do you hear me, until we meet again.”