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The Execution of David Powell Will Not Serve justice

By Steve Hall

That's what Michael King writes in the current issue of the Austin Chronicle, "Point Austin: Let David Live."  It's a must-read.How much pain is enough to make up for irreparable harm? ? David Powell If all goes according to plan, David Lee Powell will be executed by the state of Texas, in our names, on June 15. That's the date set by state District Judge Mike Lynch at the request of Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg.This is an execution more than 32 years in the making, and the story exhibits the tortured legal history of many Texas capital cases. The 27-year-old Powell was first convicted of the May 18, 1978, murder of 26-year-old Austin Police Officer Ralph Ablanedo in September 1978. The first conviction was overturned for legal reasons that included prosecutorial misconduct; he was tried and convicted again in 1991, and retried for sentencing only in 1999...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 20, 2010 (boomark / email).