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Updated: 2:46 PM Mar 19, 2010
Powell Scheduled to Die Thursday
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) Virginia is set to execute a man who killed a teen girl then bragged about it to prosecutors once he thought he could not face the death penalty.
Posted: 12:02 PM Mar 18, 2010Reporter: DENA POTTER - Associated Press Writer |
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Virginia is set to execute a man who killed a teen girl then bragged about it to prosecutors once he thought he could not face the death penalty.
Thirty-one-year-old Paul Warner Powell is scheduled to die at 9 p.m. at Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt. He chose to die by electrocution rather than lethal injection.
Powell was convicted in 2000 and sentenced to death for fatally stabbing 16-year-old Stacie Reed of Manassas. He also raped and attempted to kill her 14-year-old sister.
The Virginia Supreme Court overturned that verdict, and Powell wrote a taunting letter to prosecutors detailing the crime. He was convicted again in 2003.
Gov. Bob McDonnell refused to stop the execution, and Powell's court challenges have been rejected.
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Rot! My sympathy goes to the victim & their family.
Good we need to get these crazy people off the street's and outta the jails. Thats just awful to kill someone and then brag about it. He should be put to death.
