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Offline Chris

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Virginia to Execute Powell on Thursday
« on: March 18, 2010, 03:38:00 PM »
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MANASSAS, Va. - Virginia is set to execute a man who killed a teen girl then bragged about it to prosecutors once he thought he could not face the death penalty.

Thirty-one-year-old Paul Warner Powell is scheduled to die at 9 p.m. at Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt. He chose to die by electrocution rather than lethal injection.

Powell was convicted in 2000 and sentenced to death for fatally stabbing 16-year-old Stacie Reed of Manassas. He also raped and attempted to kill her 14-year-old sister.

The Virginia Supreme Court overturned that verdict, and Powell wrote a taunting letter to prosecutors detailing the crime. He was convicted again in 2003.
http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/local/paul-powell-execution-thursday-031710

What a ****in' dumbass.
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Re: Virginia to Execute Powell on Thursday
« Reply #1 on: March 18, 2010, 03:45:05 PM »
I say bullets are cheaper.
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Re: Virginia to Execute Powell on Thursday
« Reply #2 on: March 18, 2010, 06:04:11 PM »
Quote from: FGL on March 18, 2010, 03:45:05 PM
I say bullets are cheaper.
Too fast.

A pick-up truck, ankle shackles, 20 foot of chain and a slow drive down a country road oughta do nicely.
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Re: Virginia to Execute Powell on Thursday
« Reply #3 on: March 18, 2010, 07:15:34 PM »
Quote from: Mr Snuggle Bunny on March 18, 2010, 06:04:11 PM
Too fast.

A pick-up truck, ankle shackles, 20 foot of chain and a slow drive down a country road oughta do nicely.
I'm more about good riddance than punishment because no amount of human punishment can really atone.  We put down rabid dogs, this guy is rabid, just put him down.
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Re: Virginia to Execute Powell on Thursday
« Reply #4 on: March 18, 2010, 07:32:02 PM »
^yep.
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Re: Virginia to Execute Powell on Thursday
« Reply #5 on: March 18, 2010, 09:38:10 PM »
He fried at 9:09 EDT. Electricity is very dangerous.
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Re: Virginia to Execute Powell on Thursday
« Reply #6 on: March 18, 2010, 09:41:29 PM »
Quote from: GOBUCKS on March 18, 2010, 09:38:10 PM
He fried at 9:09 EDT. Electricity is very dangerous.

Shockingly good news.  :cheersmate:
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Re: Virginia to Execute Powell on Thursday
« Reply #7 on: March 18, 2010, 09:42:20 PM »
Quote from: GOBUCKS on March 18, 2010, 09:38:10 PM
He fried at 9:09 EDT. Electricity is very dangerous.

Whoa.  That's a little early in the day.

I'm not sure if this is strictly a Nebraska phenomenon, or if it's more widespread, but usually executions here take place at 11:59 p.m.
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Re: Virginia to Execute Powell on Thursday
« Reply #8 on: March 19, 2010, 05:14:17 AM »
Why was he given a choice of how he died is what I want to know he didn't give that little girl a choice.
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Re: Virginia to Execute Powell on Thursday
« Reply #9 on: March 19, 2010, 06:29:09 AM »
Quote from: littlelamb on March 19, 2010, 05:14:17 AM
Why was he given a choice of how he died is what I want to know he didn't give that little girl a choice.

That's true, but Virginia statute says the condemned have a choice but if they fail to make a choice, lethal injection is the default method.

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� 53.1-233. Death chamber; who to execute death sentence.

The Director is hereby authorized and directed to provide and maintain a permanent death chamber and necessary appurtenant facilities within the confines of a state correctional facility. The death chamber shall have all the necessary appliances for the proper execution of prisoners by electrocution or by continuous intravenous injection of a substance or combination of substances sufficient to cause death. Any such substance shall be applied until the prisoner is pronounced dead by a physician licensed in the Commonwealth. All prisoners upon whom the death penalty has been imposed shall be executed in the death chamber. Each execution shall be conducted by the Director or one or more assistants designated by him.

The identities of persons designated by the Director to conduct an execution, and any information reasonably calculated to lead to the identities of such persons, including, but not limited to, their names, residential or office addresses, residential or office telephone numbers, and social security numbers, shall be confidential, shall be exempt from the Freedom of Information Act (§ 2.2-3700 et seq.), and shall not be subject to discovery or introduction as evidence in any civil proceeding unless good cause is shown.


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53.1-234.
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The Director, or the assistants appointed by him, shall at the time named in the sentence, unless a suspension of execution is ordered, cause the prisoner under sentence of death to be electrocuted or injected with a lethal substance, until he is dead. The method of execution shall be chosen by the prisoner. In the event the prisoner refuses to make a choice at least fifteen days prior to the scheduled execution, the method of execution shall be by lethal injection.
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VA statute 53.1-234

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Re: Virginia to Execute Powell on Thursday
« Reply #10 on: March 19, 2010, 10:27:19 AM »
Quote from: Mr Snuggle Bunny on March 18, 2010, 06:04:11 PM
Too fast.

A pick-up truck, ankle shackles, 20 foot of chain and a slow drive down a country road oughta do nicely.

Slather his nekkid ass with brown gravy and lock him in a closet with a wolverine that's high on angel dust.
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Re: Virginia to Execute Powell on Thursday
« Reply #11 on: March 19, 2010, 10:42:39 AM »
So is this stupid, disgusting POS a dead POS now?
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Re: Virginia to Execute Powell on Thursday
« Reply #12 on: March 19, 2010, 12:54:16 PM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on March 19, 2010, 10:42:39 AM
So is this stupid, disgusting POS a dead POS now?

Yup.

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« Reply #5 on: March 18, 2010, 09:38:10 pm »

He fried at 9:09 EDT. Electricity is very dangerous.
 

 
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Re: Virginia to Execute Powell on Thursday
« Reply #13 on: March 19, 2010, 01:19:06 PM »
Excellent.  Adios, cucaracha!
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