Man beats death penalty, gets it anyway after taunting prosecutors

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There are so many cases of people getting away with murder, both literally and figuratively. So here’s a nice story…a man who sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl and murdered her 16-year-old sister (not the nice part of the story) but the state Supreme Court overturned the death penalty ruling. Then he wrote a letter chronicling the crimes to taunt prosecutors. Now he’s being put to death. The system (sometimes) works!

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.

The only thing that doesn’t make sense to me here…clearly they knew he committed the crimes, otherwise why would he have been found guilty and sentenced to the death penalty in the first place? So how come the crimes alone didn’t warrant the death penalty? He did something horrific, he gets the death penalty. It shouldn’t be re-reversed just because he gave the prosecutors a little “nyeah nyeah nyeah nyeah nyeah.” It should have not been reversed in the first place just because the guy is scum for doing it in the first place.

Anyway, he’ll be dead tonight. I’m just hoping there isn’t some sort of problem in the powerlines tonight that would make his spirit go into another person’s body. Without that scientific tenet, 50% of horror movies would be completely baseless and irrelevant, a fact I’m simply not willing to concede on behalf of living serial murderer dolls everywhere.

Virginia to Execute Powell on Thursday [My Fox DC]

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