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More Coverage of Tim Adams

By Steve Hall

The Texas Tribune report is, "Veteran Who Shot Baby Seeks Clemency."  It's written by Brandi Grissom. He was an Army veteran and a Houston security guard who had never been arrested until February 2002, when a fight with his wife sent Timothy Adams into a suicidal spiral. During a stand-off with police, Adams fatally shot his 19-month-old son twice in the chest ? landing him a spot on death row. Adams is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Feb. 22. Today, his lawyers, family members and three of the jurors who sentenced him to death sent a clemency petition to the Board of Pardons and Paroles and to Gov. Rick Perry, asking them to commute Adams' sentence to life in prison. Adams and his supporters say that at his original trial, jurors never heard mitigating information about his past that could have changed their sentencing decision...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 08, 2011 (boomark / email).