{"id":147477,"date":"2011-12-07T07:46:11","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T13:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=147477"},"modified":"2011-12-08T08:22:30","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T14:22:30","slug":"execution-date-set-for-cherokee-county-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=147477","title":{"rendered":"Execution Date Set for Cherokee County Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=147602\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-147602\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/12\/Beunka-Adams2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Beunka Adams2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-147602\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nJACKSONVILLE &#8212; An execution date for a Cherokee County man convicted of capital murder was set Monday for March 8, 2012. Beunka Adams was convicted and sentenced to death in August 2004 for the kidnapping and execution-style murder of Kenneth Vandever and the shooting and sexually assault of two BDJ&#8217;s convenience store clerks in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>On that night, Adams and accomplice Richard Cobb, also sentenced to death in 2004, allegedly entered BDJ&#8217;s and robbed customer Kenneth Vandever, 24, and fatally shot him in the head, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. He then allegedly robbed, kidnapped, sexually assaulted and eventually shot two female clerks. Both clerks survived. <\/p>\n<p>According to testimony presented in court by Cobb in 2004, the two met in the ninth grade at a probation boot camp in Jacksonvillle, and began committing burglaries together in 2001.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JACKSONVILLE &#8212; An execution date for a Cherokee County man convicted of capital murder was set Monday for March 8, 2012. Beunka Adams was convicted and sentenced to death in August 2004 for the kidnapping and execution-style murder of Kenneth Vandever and the shooting and sexually assault of two BDJ&#8217;s convenience store clerks in 2002. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=147477\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Execution Date Set for Cherokee County Man<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-29 22:58:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147477"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147791,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147477\/revisions\/147791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}