RECEIVED IN COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS NOV 05 2015 f«3V o22015 Afe@IAeosta.G»ei1< November 2, 2015
ADAM KELLY WARD TDCJ # 00999525 Polunsky Unit 3872 FM 350 South Livingston, Texas 77351
Dear Mr. Ward:
Pursuant to Texas Code of Criminal Procedure art. 43.141, enclosed is a copy of the trial court's Order setting the execution of ADAM KELLY WARD for March 22, 2016. ORIGINAL SIGNED BY RICHARD A. BEACOM JR.. JUDGE
HON. RICHARD A. BEACOM, JR. Presiding Judge 354™ Judicial District Court Hunt County, Texas
cc: Joni White Jefferson Clendenin Assistant Director Assistant Attorney General Classifications & Records Division Attorney General's Office TDCJ - ID 209 W. 14th Street P. O. Box 99 Austin, Texas 78701 Huntsville, Texas 77342-0099
Abel Acosta David Dow Clerk Attorney for Adam Ward Court of Criminal Appeals 100 Law Center P. O. Box 12308 Houston, TX 77204-6060 Capitol Station Austin, Texas 78711
Maria Ramirez Noble Dan Walker, Jr. Board of Pardons & Paroles Hunt County Dist. Attorney Executive Clemency Unit P.O. Box 441 8610 Shoal Creek Greenville, TX 75403-441 Austin, Texas 78758
Office of Capital Writs 1700 N. Congress Ave. Ste. 460 Austin, TX 78701 CAUSE NO. 23,182
THE STATE OF TEXAS § IN THE MSrojfri^URT § !h,V vs. § OF HUN^QOlJTW^TEXAS
ADAM KELLY WARD § 354™ JUDfe^< I DISTRICT '****.» SENTENCE OF DEATH
This day this cause being again called, the State appeared by and through the" Hunt County District Attorney, for the purpose of having sentence oflaw pronounced in -accordance with the verdict andjudgment rendered against ADAM KELLY WARD at a •!&-.•
jgbrmer term of this Court, to-wit: on the 26th day of June, 2007. The verdict and judgment inthe defendant's case were reviewed on direct appeal by the Court of ' '-•sgy.7
-v^Criminal Appeals of Texas. Subsequently, on the 10th day of February 2010 the ;: '"•'=• judgment in the. defendant's case was affirmed by the decision of the Court of Ciimina] ;
TAppeals, and, in accordance, this Court has received the decision;and.mandate which are-
Son file among the papers in this cause.
On the 6st day of October, 2010, the Court ofCriminal Appeals denied habeas relief in the defendant's application for writ of habeas corpus.
On the 6th day ofMarch, 2014, the U. S. District Court, Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division denied habeas relief in the defendant's federal application for writ ofhabeas corpus.
On the 28th day ofMay, 2015, the defendant filed apetition for writ ofcertiorari with the United States Supreme Court. The Court denied defendant's petition on the 5' :th
day of October, 2015.
i.-.V Thereupon, this Court proceeded to pronounce sentence against the defendant, ADAM KELLY WARD, as follows:
It is therefore CONSIDERED and ADJUDGED by the Court that the defendant, ADAM KELLY WARD, is guilty of the offense of Capital Murder as found by the jury, and the jury having further answered that there is a probability that the defendant would commit criminal acts of violence that would constitute acontinuing threat to society, and taking into consideration all the evidence, including the circumstances of the offense, the defendant's character and background, the personal moral culpability of the defendant, there is not sufficient mitigating circumstances to warrant that a sentence of life
imprisonment rather than adeath sentence be imposed and the law providing that on such jury finding the Court shall assess the death penalty to the defendant; -.-:; —-iriS, THERfiFORE, THE ORDER OF THE COURT that the defendant, having 1been,adjudged, guilty of Capital Murder and having been assessed punishmentafdemhlin accordance with the findings ofthe jury and the judgment ofthis Court, shall at some time after the hour ol 600 pm, on Tuesday, the 22nd day ofMarch, 2016, be put to death by an executioner designated by the Director ofthe Institutional Division ofthe Texas Department ofCriminal Justice, who shall cause a substance or substances in a lethal quantity to be intravenously injected into the body ofthe defendant to continue until the defendant is deceased, obeying all laws ofthe State ofTexas with reference to such execution.
IT IS ORDERED that the Clerk of this Court shall issue aDeath Warrant, in accordance with this sentence, to the Director ofthe Institution Division ofthe Texas Department ofCriminal Justice, and shall deliver such warrant to the Sheriff ofHunt County, Texas, to be by him delivered to the Director of the Institution Division of the
Texas Department of Criminal Justice, together with the defendant, ADAM KELLY
WARD, if he has not previously been so delivered.
DONE and ENTERED this the 2nd day of November, 2015.
ORIGINAL SJGNED BY RICHARD A. BEACOM JR., JUDGE HONORABLE RICHARD BEACOM 354™ JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT HUNT COUNTY, TEXAS
•u '"» '<• • n CAUSE NO. 23,182
STATE OF TEXAS § ^INta DISTRICT COURT c<-e*i § V. § OF HUNT CbOrfTYj TEXAS § T©Pn ADAM KELLY WARD § 354^bIP©PP DISTRICT ^JUKl ur tKiiiil'AL APPEALS EXECUTION ORDER NOV 06 2015
This Court, having received the mandate from the Court/oJ^pigugal Appeals
affirming the Defendant's conviction in the above styled and numbered cause and
having received notice that the Court of Criminal Appeals has denied habeas relief in
the defendant's initial petition for writ of habeas corpus, cause no. WR-70,651-02,
now enters the following Order:
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the Defendant, ADAM KELLY WARD, who has been
adjudged to be guilty of Capital Murder as charged in the indictment and whose
punishment has been assessed at Death by the verdict of the jury and judgment of
the Court, shall be kept in custody by the Director of the Texas Department of
Criminal Justice - Correctional Institutions Division at Huntsville, Texas until Tuesday,
the 22nd day of March, 2016, upon which day, at the Texas Department of Criminal
Justice - Correctional Institutions Division at Huntsville, Texas, at some time after the
hour of 6:00 p.m., in a room arranged for the purpose of execution, the said Director, acting by and through the executioner designated by said Director as provided by law,
is hereby commanded, ordered and directed to carry out this sentence of death by
intravenous injection of a substance or substances in a lethal quantity sufficient to
cause the death of the said ADAM KELLY WARD and until the said ADAM KELLY WARD
is dead, such procedure to be determined and supervised by the said Director of the
Correctional Institutions Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the Clerk of the Court shall send a copy of the
Death Warrant in cause 23,182 within two (2) days of the signing of this order to the
following:
1) Joni White, Assistant Director, Classifications & Records Division TDCJ-ID P.O. Box 99 Huntsville, TX 77342-0099;
2) Jefferson Clendenin, Assistant Attorney General, Attorney General's Office 209 W. 14th Street Austin, TX 78701;
3) Abel Acosta, Clerk, Court of Criminal Appeals, P.O. Box 12308 Capitol Station Austin, TX 78711;
4) David Dow, Attorney for Adam Ward, 100 Law Center, Houston, TX 77204- 6060;
5) Maria Ramirez, Board of Pardons & Paroles Executive Clemency Unit 8610 Shoal Creek Austin, TX 78758;
6) Noble Dan Walker, Jr., Hunt County District Attorney, P.O. Box 441 Greenville, TX 75403-441; and 7) Office of Capital Writs, 1700 N. Congress Ave., Ste. 460 Austin, TX 78701.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Clerk of this Court shall issue and deliver to
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RECEIVED IN COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS NOV 05 2015 f«3V o22015 Afe@IAeosta.G»ei1< November 2, 2015
ADAM KELLY WARD TDCJ # 00999525 Polunsky Unit 3872 FM 350 South Livingston, Texas 77351
Dear Mr. Ward:
Pursuant to Texas Code of Criminal Procedure art. 43.141, enclosed is a copy of the trial court's Order setting the execution of ADAM KELLY WARD for March 22, 2016. ORIGINAL SIGNED BY RICHARD A. BEACOM JR.. JUDGE
HON. RICHARD A. BEACOM, JR. Presiding Judge 354™ Judicial District Court Hunt County, Texas
cc: Joni White Jefferson Clendenin Assistant Director Assistant Attorney General Classifications & Records Division Attorney General's Office TDCJ - ID 209 W. 14th Street P. O. Box 99 Austin, Texas 78701 Huntsville, Texas 77342-0099
Abel Acosta David Dow Clerk Attorney for Adam Ward Court of Criminal Appeals 100 Law Center P. O. Box 12308 Houston, TX 77204-6060 Capitol Station Austin, Texas 78711
Maria Ramirez Noble Dan Walker, Jr. Board of Pardons & Paroles Hunt County Dist. Attorney Executive Clemency Unit P.O. Box 441 8610 Shoal Creek Greenville, TX 75403-441 Austin, Texas 78758
Office of Capital Writs 1700 N. Congress Ave. Ste. 460 Austin, TX 78701 CAUSE NO. 23,182
THE STATE OF TEXAS § IN THE MSrojfri^URT § !h,V vs. § OF HUN^QOlJTW^TEXAS
ADAM KELLY WARD § 354™ JUDfe^< I DISTRICT '****.» SENTENCE OF DEATH
This day this cause being again called, the State appeared by and through the" Hunt County District Attorney, for the purpose of having sentence oflaw pronounced in -accordance with the verdict andjudgment rendered against ADAM KELLY WARD at a •!&-.•
jgbrmer term of this Court, to-wit: on the 26th day of June, 2007. The verdict and judgment inthe defendant's case were reviewed on direct appeal by the Court of ' '-•sgy.7
-v^Criminal Appeals of Texas. Subsequently, on the 10th day of February 2010 the ;: '"•'=• judgment in the. defendant's case was affirmed by the decision of the Court of Ciimina] ;
TAppeals, and, in accordance, this Court has received the decision;and.mandate which are-
Son file among the papers in this cause.
On the 6st day of October, 2010, the Court ofCriminal Appeals denied habeas relief in the defendant's application for writ of habeas corpus.
On the 6th day ofMarch, 2014, the U. S. District Court, Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division denied habeas relief in the defendant's federal application for writ ofhabeas corpus.
On the 28th day ofMay, 2015, the defendant filed apetition for writ ofcertiorari with the United States Supreme Court. The Court denied defendant's petition on the 5' :th
day of October, 2015.
i.-.V Thereupon, this Court proceeded to pronounce sentence against the defendant, ADAM KELLY WARD, as follows:
It is therefore CONSIDERED and ADJUDGED by the Court that the defendant, ADAM KELLY WARD, is guilty of the offense of Capital Murder as found by the jury, and the jury having further answered that there is a probability that the defendant would commit criminal acts of violence that would constitute acontinuing threat to society, and taking into consideration all the evidence, including the circumstances of the offense, the defendant's character and background, the personal moral culpability of the defendant, there is not sufficient mitigating circumstances to warrant that a sentence of life
imprisonment rather than adeath sentence be imposed and the law providing that on such jury finding the Court shall assess the death penalty to the defendant; -.-:; —-iriS, THERfiFORE, THE ORDER OF THE COURT that the defendant, having 1been,adjudged, guilty of Capital Murder and having been assessed punishmentafdemhlin accordance with the findings ofthe jury and the judgment ofthis Court, shall at some time after the hour ol 600 pm, on Tuesday, the 22nd day ofMarch, 2016, be put to death by an executioner designated by the Director ofthe Institutional Division ofthe Texas Department ofCriminal Justice, who shall cause a substance or substances in a lethal quantity to be intravenously injected into the body ofthe defendant to continue until the defendant is deceased, obeying all laws ofthe State ofTexas with reference to such execution.
IT IS ORDERED that the Clerk of this Court shall issue aDeath Warrant, in accordance with this sentence, to the Director ofthe Institution Division ofthe Texas Department ofCriminal Justice, and shall deliver such warrant to the Sheriff ofHunt County, Texas, to be by him delivered to the Director of the Institution Division of the
Texas Department of Criminal Justice, together with the defendant, ADAM KELLY
WARD, if he has not previously been so delivered.
DONE and ENTERED this the 2nd day of November, 2015.
ORIGINAL SJGNED BY RICHARD A. BEACOM JR., JUDGE HONORABLE RICHARD BEACOM 354™ JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT HUNT COUNTY, TEXAS
•u '"» '<• • n CAUSE NO. 23,182
STATE OF TEXAS § ^INta DISTRICT COURT c<-e*i § V. § OF HUNT CbOrfTYj TEXAS § T©Pn ADAM KELLY WARD § 354^bIP©PP DISTRICT ^JUKl ur tKiiiil'AL APPEALS EXECUTION ORDER NOV 06 2015
This Court, having received the mandate from the Court/oJ^pigugal Appeals
affirming the Defendant's conviction in the above styled and numbered cause and
having received notice that the Court of Criminal Appeals has denied habeas relief in
the defendant's initial petition for writ of habeas corpus, cause no. WR-70,651-02,
now enters the following Order:
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the Defendant, ADAM KELLY WARD, who has been
adjudged to be guilty of Capital Murder as charged in the indictment and whose
punishment has been assessed at Death by the verdict of the jury and judgment of
the Court, shall be kept in custody by the Director of the Texas Department of
Criminal Justice - Correctional Institutions Division at Huntsville, Texas until Tuesday,
the 22nd day of March, 2016, upon which day, at the Texas Department of Criminal
Justice - Correctional Institutions Division at Huntsville, Texas, at some time after the
hour of 6:00 p.m., in a room arranged for the purpose of execution, the said Director, acting by and through the executioner designated by said Director as provided by law,
is hereby commanded, ordered and directed to carry out this sentence of death by
intravenous injection of a substance or substances in a lethal quantity sufficient to
cause the death of the said ADAM KELLY WARD and until the said ADAM KELLY WARD
is dead, such procedure to be determined and supervised by the said Director of the
Correctional Institutions Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the Clerk of the Court shall send a copy of the
Death Warrant in cause 23,182 within two (2) days of the signing of this order to the
following:
1) Joni White, Assistant Director, Classifications & Records Division TDCJ-ID P.O. Box 99 Huntsville, TX 77342-0099;
2) Jefferson Clendenin, Assistant Attorney General, Attorney General's Office 209 W. 14th Street Austin, TX 78701;
3) Abel Acosta, Clerk, Court of Criminal Appeals, P.O. Box 12308 Capitol Station Austin, TX 78711;
4) David Dow, Attorney for Adam Ward, 100 Law Center, Houston, TX 77204- 6060;
5) Maria Ramirez, Board of Pardons & Paroles Executive Clemency Unit 8610 Shoal Creek Austin, TX 78758;
6) Noble Dan Walker, Jr., Hunt County District Attorney, P.O. Box 441 Greenville, TX 75403-441; and 7) Office of Capital Writs, 1700 N. Congress Ave., Ste. 460 Austin, TX 78701.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Clerk of this Court shall issue and deliver to
the Sheriff of Hunt County, Texas, a Death Warrant in accordance with this Order,
directed to the Director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice - Correctional
Institutions Division at Huntsville, Texas, commanding him, the said Director, to put
into execution the Judgment of Death against the said ADAM KELLY WARD.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Sheriff of Hunt County, upon receipt of said
Death Warrant, is to deliver said Death Warrant to the Director of the Texas
Department of Criminal Justice - Correctional Institutions Division at Huntsville, Texas
and shall take receipt of said Death Warrant and return the receipt to the Clerk of this
Court.
SIGNED AND ENTERED this 2nd day of November, 2015.
ORIGINAL SIGNED BY RICHARD A. BEAC0M JR.. JUDGE
HONORABLE RICHARD A. BEACOM, JR. Presiding Judge 354th Judicial District Court Hunt County, Texas ••'\
CAUSE NO. 23,182 /••
THE STATE OF TEXAS § IN Ti^^§T£IC;fCOURT vs. § OF HUNT COUNT^fijg&XAS § ADAM- KELLY WARD § 354™ JUDICIAL D^RigiW m WURTOFCRWALAPPa' DEATH WARRANT NOV 06 2015 TO THE DIRECTOR OF THE INSTITUTIONAL DIVISION OF THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND TO THE SHERIF^^P^Tq^ COUNTY, TEXAS: ~ ' * On the 26th day of June, 2007, the above-named defendant, in the above-
styled and numbered cause, was convicted of the offense of capital murder. On the
26th day of June, 2007, the Court sentenced the above-named defendant to death in
accordance with the findings of the jury, pursuant to the Texas Code of Criminal
Procedure.
The Court, having received the Court of Criminal Appeals' mandate
affirming the above-named defendant's conviction for capital murder and having
received notice of the Court of Criminal Appeals' denial of the defendant's
application for writ of habeas corpus, sentenced the above-named defendant to
death for the offense of capital murder and ORDERS that the execution be had on
Tuesday, the 22nd day of March, 2016, at any time after the hour of 6:00 p.m.
at the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice,
Huntsville, Texas. •A
The Sheriff of Hunt County, Texas, is hereby commanded to transport the
defendant, if he has not already been so delivered, to the Institutional Division of
the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Huntsville, Texas, and deliver this
warrant to the Director of the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of
Criminal Justice for the purpose of executing this warrant, and to take from the
Director the proper receipt for the defendant and this warrant. The Sheriff will
return the receipt to the office of the District Clerk of Hunt County, Texas.
The Director of the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of
Criminal Justice is hereby commanded to receive from the Sheriff of Hunt County,
Texas the defendant, if he has not already been so delivered, and this warrant, and
to give his receipt to the Sheriff, and to safely keep the defendant and to execute
the sentence of death at any time after the hour of 6:00 p.m. on the day and date
specified in paragraph two of this warrant, by causing a substance or substances in
a lethal quantity to be intravenously injected into the body of the defendant to
continue until the defendant is deceased, obeying all laws of the State of Texas
with reference to such execution.
Witness my hand and seal of the District Clerk of Hunt County, Texas, at
my office in the City of Greenville, Texas, on the 2nd day of November, 2015.
Ofa/jM ir\ajiJJu^i Jltitj,4 CJLcL) STACEYT.ANDRUM DISTRICT CLERK - HUNT COUNTY, TEXAS RETURN
The Sheriff of Hunt County, Texas, received this writ on the day of , 2015, at M. and executed the same by delivering two copies of this warrant to the Warden of the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice on the day of , 2015 and by taking his receipts for the said defendant, if necessary, and this warrant, which receipts are hereto attached do here now make my return on this writ this day of , 2015.
SHERIFF RANDY MEEKS HUNT COUNTY, TEXAS
ACKNQWLEDG EMENT
On this the day of . 2015, the following papers related to cause number 23,182, styled THE STATE OF TEXAS vs. ADAM KELLY WARD, were received from the Sheriff of Hunt County, Texas:
1. One original and one copy of the DEATH WARRANT to be delivered to the Director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice- Correctional Institutions Division.
2. Two original, certified EXECUTION ORDERS.
WILLIAM STEPHENS TEXAS DEPT. OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS DIVISION HUNTSVILLE. TEXAS
DEPUTY TEXAS DEPT. OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS DIVISION