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Updated: 2:57 PM May 22, 2009
Execution Date Set for VA Inmate
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) A Virginia man who bragged to prosecutors that he killed a teenage friend and tried to rape her after he thought he couldn't get the death penalty for it is scheduled for execution in July.
Posted: 3:44 PM May 21, 2009 |
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A Virginia man who bragged to prosecutors that he killed a teenage friend and tried to rape her after he thought he couldn't get the death penalty for it is scheduled for execution in July.
The Prince William Circuit Court set a July 14 execution date for Paul Warner Powell.
Last month a divided panel of Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals justices rejected Powell's argument that he couldn't be convicted twice for the same crime.
Powell was convicted of Stacie Reed's capital murder in 2000, but the Virginia Supreme Court overturned that verdict, ruling he could not be executed because prosecutors lacked evidence that he tried to either rape or rob the Manassas teenager.
Powell then wrote the taunting letter to prosecutors. He was convicted again in 2003.
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The court sets a execution date to ensure the prisoner of a timeline so he has to wait for his death that has to be a strange feeling in itself dont you think?
The laws of the commonwealth require a 45-60 day window between the time the judge issues the death warrant and execution. The 4th Circuit turned down his final federal appeal last week, so things are moving along pretty rapidly. Powell is a ghastly monster.
Serves him right
