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More Calls for Clemency in Tim Adams' Case

By Steve Hall

"Grandparents plead for clemency for grandson's killer -- their son," is the video report on Houston's KHOU-TV.  It's reported by Kevin Reece. The parents of a convicted murderer are pleading with the governor and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to stop their son?s planned execution this month. Columbus and Wilma Adams say they don?t want to be victims again. Timothy Wayne Adams is scheduled for execution on February 22, nearly nine years to the day since he shot and killed his 19-month-old son Timothy Jr. In a custody dispute with his wife, Adams became despondent and suicidal at his southwest Houston apartment. At his trial in 2002, prosecutors said he had held his son at arm?s length and shot him in the chest, then shot him a second time on the ground...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 11, 2011 (boomark / email).