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Tim Adams Case at Supreme Court

By Steve Hall

Today's Houston Chronicle reports, "Child-killer's lawyers turn to high court."  It's written by Allan Turner.  Here are extended excerpts: With their client just a day away from execution, lawyers for Houston child killer Timothy Wayne Adams said Monday they would turn to the U.S. Supreme Court in a last-effort to save the former security guard's life.Monday's pledge to take the 42-year-old death row inmate's case to the high court came after state-level efforts to stop today's execution failed.On Friday, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles unanimously rejected a request that Adams' sentence be commuted to life in prison.The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals also dismissed an appeal that argued, in part, that Adams would not be a future danger because he likely would not father another child behind bars...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 22, 2011 (boomark / email).