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David Lee Powell

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The Austin American-Statesman reports, "Cop killer loses appeal."  The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling, in Adobe .pdf format, is here.A man convicted and sentenced to death for killing an Austin police officer during a routine traffic stop 30 years ago will not get a fourth trial, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled. The decision, issued Wednesday, paves the way for the execution of David Lee Powell, who fatally shot officer Ralph Ablanedo, a father of two young children who was working an overnight patrol shift in South Austin. Attorneys for Powell, who is the sixth-longest-serving inmate on Texas' death row, have said he was high on drugs during the May 1978 shooting and is no longer dangerous. Powell could still ask the court for a rarely granted rehearing or appeal to the U...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 17, 2008 (boomark / email).