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Coverage of David Lee Powell Hearing at Fifth Circuit

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AP reports, "Texas death row inmate tries to void sentence," via the San Antonio Express-News.  It's written by Alan Sayre.Attorneys for a former University of Texas honors student who has been on death row for three decades for killing an Austin police officer again asked an appeals court Tuesday to throw out his sentence. David Lee Powell, 57, has been sentenced to death three times for the 1978 killing of Ralph Albanedo, who had pulled over Powell's girlfriend for not having a proper license plate on her car. Powell was a passenger in the car. Albanedo was shot 10 times by an automatic assault weapon. Powell has been on death row since October 1978, the month following his conviction. Only five other Texas inmates have spent more time there...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 04, 2008 (boomark / email).