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TEXAS (USA): TIMOTHY WAYNE ADAMS EXECUTED
February 22, 2011: Timothy Wayne Adams, 42, black, was executed. He was convicted in
2003 of shooting to death his 19-month old son, Tim, Jr. on February 20, 2002.
Last Wednesday more than 90 faith leaders and 3 jurors from the original trial
urged the board to ask Gov. Rick Perry to commute Adam’s death penalty to life
in prison. (see Feb. 7). Despite the petition, however, the 7-member board
voted 7-0 twice — first against a 120-day reprieve and then against a
recommendation to commute the sentence to life in prison. Adams becomes the 2nd
condemned inmate to be put to death this year in Texas and the 466th overall since the state
resumed capital punishment on December 7m 1982. Adams becomes the 8th condemned
inmate to be put to death this year in the USA and the 1242nd overall since
the nation resumed executions on January 17, 1977. (Sources: Associated Press & Rick Halperin, The (Orange County) Record, 22/02/2011)
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