Clemency or Forgiveness?

I admit I did not know very much of "Tookie" Williams and the situation concerning his impending execution. I further admit, I only read this piece on the subject at the decidedly right-of-center Frontpagemag.com. But given the circumstances of the multiple murders, I see no reason to look for mitigating factors which might permit clemency. At this point, I strongly believe only God himself can grant Williams what he needs - and it is not clemency.

How could the Governor grant clemency (mercy) anyhow? Doesn't the moral authority to grant mercy rest with the slighted (in this case, the family of the deceased) and not with the state (which the Governor represents)? Were all members of the families who lost a loved one due to Williams' crimes to agree to grant such mercy, perhaps then the Governor could grant their wish. Without this, all third parties should cease their attempts at intervention, no matter how noble (or misguided). Can anyone tell me what the family members have said of these crimes? What were their positions immediately following the crime and what are they today?

Here's a snippet of sanity from the piece:

Allowing Tookie Williams to receive the death sentence 24 years after it was imposed by a jury of his peers is not an outrage; the outrage is that thousands of Americans were conned into lavishing sympathy on this murderer instead of his victims and their families, that a street thug who's learned to manipulate the Left enjoys glowing press coverage, a positive biopic, warm personal relations with Hollywood's elite, and an honored position in the Crips.

He ends with this:

I'm not a father confessor, but I'm fairly certain of this moral arithmetic: Writing children's books is not an appropriate penance for killing an entire family in as bloody a way as possible, dedicating his entire life to a ruthless pursuit of violence, and founding an organization that has trapped generations of inner city youths into the same destructive cycle.