State still wants Weeks to die The revelation that the family was split over Week's execution first became public in 1999 when the Times-Dispatch of Richmond obtained a copy of the original clemency petition filed by Richardson, which included the letters by the Cavazos children. The fact that the slain trooper's children are asking for Weeks' life to be spared, however, isn't moving state prosecutors. It is our opinion that the execution move forward. It was a brutal, heinous crime. The mother favors execution, and the two children oppose it.
People have their own ideas.
Richardson said he filed the second set of updated clemency petitions Friday, urging Gilmore to grant Weeks clemency because he has admitted responsibility and showed remorse. Richardson also said the jurors were confused into thinking they couldn't give Weeks a life sentence, and that former prison guards and a prison counselor are urging his life be spared. He had been a trooper since 1985. On probation for selling marijuana, Weeks was a passenger in a stolen car driven by his uncle, Louis Dukes. Weeks reportedly fired two 9 mm bullets at the trooper.