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Family, Friends Urge Killer Be Spared

By Steve Hall

That's the title of Allan Turner's report in today's Houston Chronicle on Tim Adams' case.  It's subtitled, "They want his death sentence commuted to life." In a session fraught with emotion and tears, family and friends of killer Timothy Wayne Adams on Tuesday publicly called on the state's pardons board to spare the life of the one-time security guard who is to be executed later this month for the murder of his 19-month-old son.The public plea came one day after the Texas Defender Service formally asked the board to recommend that Gov. Rick Perry commute the 42-year-old man's sentence to life in prison. During Perry's tenure, the board only twice has recommended commutation, and the governor on both occasions allowed the executions to proceed...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 09, 2011 (boomark / email).