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Texas executes man who killed city inspector in 2005
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 24 - 03 - 2016

on Tuesday executed a convicted killer who repeatedly shot a city code officer inspecting piles of garbage at the death row inmate's former home, a department of criminal justice official said.
Adam Ward, 33, was pronounced dead at 6:34 p.m. after receiving a lethal injection at the state's death chamber in Huntsville. The execution was the fifth this year in Texas, which has executed more offenders than any state since the US Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976.
"There are a lot of things that are not right in this world, I have had to overcome them myself. I hope all that are on the row, I hope they find peace and solace in their life," Ward was quoted by prison officials as saying in his final statement.
In 2005 in Commerce, about 65 miles northeast of Dallas, city code officer Michael Walker was called out to look at a heap of rubbish that Ward and his father hoarded inside and outside their home, the Texas Attorney General's office said. The family also hoarded guns, it said.
When Walker approached the property taking pictures of its perimeter, Ward sprayed the city inspector with a hose he had been using to wash his car, and then argued with him, the office said.
Ward then went back in the house to get a gun, and shot Walker, who was 46.
"After Walker fell, Ward shot him again at close range. Walker sustained nine gunshot wounds in total and died," the office said.
Ward confessed to killing Walker shortly thereafter, explaining he believed the city was after his family and was going to tear down their home, it said.
"This is not a capital case. I never had intended to do anything. I feel very grieved for the loss of Walker," Ward was quoted as saying in his final statement.
Lawyers for Ward had filed an appeal to halt the execution, arguing he suffered from severe mental illness. But the US Supreme Court denied the appeal about two hours before the execution.
"The crime for which Mr. Ward received the penalty of death was an act inextricable from the delusions and paranoia fed by his disabling bipolar disorder," lawyers for Ward said in a petition filed with the court.


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