Florida rapper Billy Adams III, convicted in the 2023 killings of his pregnant girlfriend and her unborn child, has asked a Tampa judge to impose the death penalty and bar any defense mitigation.
Adams, a 28-year-old known as Ace Nh, sent a handwritten letter dated Oct. 12 to Circuit Judge Mark Wolfe. In it, he told the court he accepts a jury’s death recommendation and does not want his lawyers to argue for life.
The Dec. 1 sentencing hearing will decide whether Adams dies by execution or spends life in prison. The judge still holds that choice under Florida law, even after the jury spoke.
Adams was convicted in connection with the deaths of 22-year-old Alana Sims and the child she was carrying. Sims was five months pregnant when she was killed in 2023.
The New York Post reported that prosecutors said Sims was pregnant with a child Adams believed was his, and that the two were slain because he was not ready to be a father. Testing later showed the unborn child was not his.
Adams made his position plain in the note to Judge Wolfe. He asked the court to follow the jury’s call for death.
He wrote that he does not oppose capital punishment and does not want a fight over his sentence.
Before the hearing, Adams told the judge:
"I don’t have an issue with the death penalty."
He also directed his own defense team to stand down on the usual pleas for leniency.
Adams stated in the same letter:
"I don’t want my lawyers to present any mitigation or arguments at this hearing."
That request is uncommon. Defendants facing death almost always let counsel present evidence of childhood hardship, mental health claims, or other factors meant to spare their lives. Adams is trying to shut that door.
The timeline around Sims’s death adds another layer. Days before she was killed, Adams had been acquitted in a separate double-murder case.
WTSP-TV reporting cited in the coverage said Sims was on her way to celebrate that acquittal when she died. Adams, according to the account of the case, gunned her down.
Prosecutors tied the motive to fatherhood he did not want. He believed the child was his. It was not. Sims and the baby still ended up dead.
Hillsborough County authorities handled the case. A sheriff’s office photo of Adams has circulated with the reporting. The precise street location of the 2023 shooting was not detailed in the available account.
A jury has already recommended death. That does not end the matter.
Judge Mark Wolfe will weigh life without parole against execution at the December hearing. Florida law leaves that final call with the bench even when a jury has spoken for death.
Adams’s letter urges the judge to adopt the jury’s recommendation and to hear no mitigation from the defense. Whether Wolfe grants that path remains to be seen in open court.
Conviction details beyond the core finding, exact charge captions, the formal conviction date, and the full jury verdict language, were not laid out in the primary reporting. What is established is the guilty finding tied to Sims and her unborn child, the death recommendation, and the coming sentencing date.
Adams’s request lands while Florida is moving inmates to the death chamber at a high rate.
The Death Penalty Information Center figures cited in the coverage show the state has carried out 18 executions so far in 2026. The prior year hit 19, described as a record.
That pace means a death sentence in Tampa is not an abstract threat. If Wolfe imposes death and appeals fail, Adams would join a state system that has been active in carrying out capital judgments.
Capital cases still require the court to confirm the sentence is lawful. A defendant’s waiver of mitigation does not erase the judge’s duty. It does, however, remove the usual defense presentation that often slows or softens the path to death.
Alana Sims was 22. She was five months pregnant. She was described as Adams’s girlfriend.
Prosecutors put the reason for the killings in blunt terms: Adams was not ready to be a father. He acted on that belief. The child, it turned out, was not his. The result was two deaths anyway.
Adams had just walked free from a different double-murder prosecution. Within days, Sims was dead. The sequence is part of the public record of this case as reported.
No lengthy confession text beyond the Oct. 12 sentencing letter appears in the account. The letter itself is the clearest statement of Adams’s current posture: he accepts death, and he wants no courtroom effort to save him from it.
Defense lawyers typically must still appear. How they handle a client who has ordered them not to mitigate will be one of the practical questions on Dec. 1. The judge will also have to decide how much weight to give a handwritten waiver against the gravity of a death sentence.
Two people are gone, Sims and the child she carried. A jury has recommended the law’s hardest penalty. The man convicted of the crime says he does not contest that outcome.
Florida’s courts, not the defendant, will enter the final judgment. Judge Wolfe can still choose life. Adams has told him not to.
The Dec. 1 hearing will test whether a clear jury recommendation, a waived mitigation case, and a written request for death produce the sentence Adams says he will accept. Taxpayers, victims’ families, and the public will see whether the system delivers a decisive result or another drawn-out round of litigation.
When a man kills a young woman and her unborn child because he did not want fatherhood, then asks the state to end his life, the least the justice system owes is a clear, lawful answer, without excuses and without delay.
