Deaths in Custody
Executed

Adam Ward

33 years old · died March 22, 2016 · Huntsville Prison, Walker County, Texas

Adam Ward, 33, was executed by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas, on March 22, 2016, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, which recorded his death at 6:34 p.m. In his last statement, he apologized to his parents, said he grieved for the family of Michael Walker, a city code enforcement officer killed in Commerce in 2005, and thanked his friends on death row. The execution followed Ward's 2005 conviction for that shooting, which the department lists as the reason for his sentence.

Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state

Reported by: Texas Department of Criminal Justice (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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