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VA stay

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

A stay is reported in Virginia.  via WaPo: The U.S. Supreme Court today stayed the execution of Paul Warner Powell, a Virginia man who killed a 16-year-old Manassas girl 10 years ago and was scheduled to die tomorrow night.. . . The Virginia Supreme Court overturned Powell’s first capital conviction, but Powell then wrote a boastful letter to prosecutors giving them additional information about the crime. Because he admitted trying to rape Stacie Reed, Powell was tried a second time and was again given a death sentence in 2003. He was to be the 104th condemned prisoner executed in Virginia since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976. The Supreme Court’s ruling to stay the execution will allow the justices to decide whether to hear Powell’s argument that the second trial violated his constitutional protection against double jeopardy...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on July 13, 2009 (boomark / email).