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Texas Execution

By Steve Hall

Texas carried out its second execution of the year, tonight, in Huntsville.  It was the Texas 466th execution since 1982.  Texas has far and away the busiest execution chamber in America, accounting for more than 37% of the post-Furman executions in the nation. "Texas executes Houston man for killing his son," is Juan Lozano's AP filing on the execution of Tim Adams.  It's via the Houston Chronicle. A Houston man convicted for the 2002 fatal shooting of his 19-month old namesake son after an hours-long standoff with police was executed on Tuesday.Timothy Wayne Adams received a lethal injection for the death of his son, Timothy Jr., who was shot twice at close range by his father after the standoff at his family's apartment...continue to full post

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