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Execution Date Set for David Lee Powell

By Steve Hall

Tony Plohetski reports, " Execution date set for police killer," in today's Austin American-Statesman.A state district judge has set an execution date for David Lee Powell, convicted and sentenced to die by three separate juries in the fatal shooting of an Austin police officer more than 30 years ago.Powell, who is one of the state's longest-serving death row inmates, is scheduled to be executed June 15 "after the hour of 6 p.m.," according to an order that Judge Mike Lynch issued late Monday.Lynch ordered that Powell, who shot officer Ralph Ablanedo 10 times with an AK-47, "die by intravenous injection of a substance or substances in a lethal quantity sufficient to cause death."The order was met with mixed emotions Tuesday...continue to full post

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