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<\/p>\nTAMPA, FLA. \u2014 A Tampa rapper convicted of killing his girlfriend and her unborn child in 2023 has asked a judge to sentence him to death.<\/p>\n
A jury in September recommended the death penalty for Billy Adams III on one of two first-degree murder counts in the killings of 22-year-old Alana Sims and her unborn child.<\/p>\n
Adams wrote a letter to Circuit Judge Mark Wolfe, filed Oct. 12, asking the judge to sentence him to death.<\/p>\n
For Count 1, premeditated first-degree murder in Sims’ death, the jury recommended life in prison without the possibility of parole.<\/p>\n
For Count 2, killing an unborn child by injury to the mother, also a first-degree murder charge, the jury recommended the death penalty.<\/p>\n
A Spencer hearing is set for Dec. 1, when Wolfe is expected to decide Adams’ sentence.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to waive mitigation at this hearing and I want to be sentenced to death to what the jury voted to give me,\u201d Adams wrote.<\/p>\n
Sims was found dead near her car in a New Tampa neighborhood on Jan. 30, 2023. Police found her 18-month-old child sleeping inside the vehicle. The toddler was not injured.<\/p>\n
Adams was arrested in the case in February 2023. Just three days before Sims was killed, he had been acquitted of murder in a separate 2020 case in which his defense argued that he acted in self-defense.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t have an issue with the death penalty and I have asked my lawyers to respect my wishes when we go to court,\u201d Adams wrote.<\/p>\n
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