The electric chair (for death penalty) at the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt,
Today is the end of the line for rapist and killer Paul Powell. It’s over. He will have his last meal. He is dead man walking. All the cliches. He dies tonight in the electric chair. It has been a long 11 year process to bring justice for this heinous crime.
Powell was convicted for raping and killing Yorkshire teen Stacie Reed. He also raped her sister and slit her throat. Her mother will attend the execution.
Powell will ‘ride the lightning.’ And after it is over, a mother is still left without a child, and a young woman is left without her sister. And all the riding of the lightning in the world really won’t right the wrong that has been done to this family.
Having a big mouth just doesn’t pay sometimes. Powell stupidly shot off his mouth in a letter to Commonwealth Attorney Paul Ebert and confessed to raping and brutally killing Stacie Reed, thinking that he couldn’t be tried twice. It didn’t work out so well for him. He got a stay of execution at the last minute back in July and his case headed for the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court will not stop his execution. The wheels of justice sometimes grind very slowly.
The United States Supreme Court will not stop the execution of a man charged with killing a 16-year-old girl at her Yorkshire home in 1999.
Paul Warner Powell was set to be executed for the murder of Stacie Reed in July but the Supreme Court postponed the execution, saying they needed more time to decide if they would review the case.
The Supreme Court decided this week not to intervene.
A new execution date has not yet been set.
Powell was convicted of capital murder for killing and attempting to rape Stacie at the family’s Yorkshire home on Jan. 29, 1999. He was also convicted of raping and attempting to kill Kristie, who survived.
Powell said he killed Stacie because she was dating a black man. He is a self avowed white supremacist.
Now Powell only has 2 things to ponder: Old Sparky or the Big Drip in the Sky. I hope he choses to ride the lightning bolt out of here. It should be painful to be both evil and stupid. The links below include an interview with News and Messenger reporter Uriah Kiser when he thought the Powell execution was a go. The News and Messenger has an excellent timeline.
