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News Coverage of David Powell Execution

By Steve Hall

"Powell executed for 1978 slaying of police officer," is the Austin American-Statesman article written by Tony Plohetski and Chuck Lindell.Declining to make a final statement, David Lee Powell was executed Tuesday for killing an Austin police officer 32 years ago as seven members of his victim's family watched silently from a nearby window.Strapped to the execution gurney with intravenous lines already inserted, Powell kept his eyes locked on members of officer Ralph Ablanedo's family but did not acknowledge Warden Charles O'Reilly's invitation to speak.His head still turned toward the window, Powell half closed his eyes as the lethal combination of drugs began flowing at 6:10 p.m."Texas inmate executed 32 years after killing," is the AP report by Michael Graczyk, via the Fort Worth Star-Telegram...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 16, 2010 (boomark / email).