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Post by dio on Feb 14, 2005 23:33:44 GMT -6
William Powell is scheduled to be executed by the state of North Carolina in March,as a citizen of the state I can only hope that he will be the first of many that are not only scheduled but EXECUTED. Oh Powell is a really nice guy,I went to the length of researching him for all those who will whine how cold blooded I am for hoping he's executed on schedule. Read this then tell me who's cold blooded: William Dillard Powell murdered Pantry convenience store clerk Mary Gladden on October 31st, 1991, by beating her on the head and face with a tire tool or lug wrench. Gladden was murdered for about $48 that was stolen from the register. Powell was observed at the crime scene; one eyewitness actually saw Powell inside the store at the approximate time (within 6 minutes) of the murder. Other evidence indicating Powell’s guilt includes taped confessions.
This murder was particularly brutal. The victim had numerous lacerations on her face, with corresponding skull fractures underneath. Part of her left ear was torn off. Her nose was broken on the left side, and her left eye was displaced due to a fracture of the bone behind the eye. The victim also had lacerations on her forearm and hand, indicating that she struggled for her life. Further, she had internal injuries. For example, she had bone fragments embedded in her brain from the numerous fractures. Her brain was torn in some places and protruded from the skull in others. Finally, she had several bruises on her brain and a sub-dural hemorrhage.
Powell has been determined to have an average IQ and normal concentration skills, language functions, sensory ability, and visual ability. Evidence showed that Powell was raised in a loving family, had worked as a jailer and with the fire department, and was well liked and not violent. An expert in psychology and neuropsychology, testified that he performed comprehensive testing of defendant on 22 November 1992. The results showed that defendant's memory, problem-solving skills, and motor functions are impaired. This was the result of using about a half gram of cocaine each day. Until two months prior to the murder the drugs were purchased from cashing social security checks that were meant for the support of his son. Prosecutors argued that Powell’s drug habit and lack of money is what motivated him to rob the grocery. I might wish him dead but I don't rob from my child to buy drugs nor do I brutally murder for drugs. Enough of the free ride for this bastard....KILL THE KILLER BANISH THE STAYS
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Post by Felix on Feb 15, 2005 8:41:21 GMT -6
well I heard a story about a similar killing in ohio, but the one witness has never come forward because they do not want to be a party to someone getting the DP potentially? As a result it remains "unsolved". Great result, is'nt it?
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Post by mnoutlaw on Mar 8, 2005 17:47:42 GMT -6
ok well i thing he should be taken out back and beaten for hours then let him heal then do it agine for a verey long un til he dies some things that some of you do not know is that my grat ant Mary Gladden had a doughter that was profoundly retarded that she was working to support along with her other kids and if i had the chance to stop his death then i would just have to ;D at him and flip the switch to kill him that is how i feel about him and all of the dogooders that want to stop his death well then i think thay can just kiss my redneck a** and go to h***! now i think if you can do the crime than you can pay for the crime now i feel better with that off of my chest.
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Post by damnyankee on Mar 8, 2005 20:57:42 GMT -6
Powell was unarmed when he entered the store. He killed Ms. Gladden because she resisted and he was wasted. The tire iron was behind the counter. Yeah, he got carried away. Like Rick James said "Cocaine's a powerful drug!" Had he committed this crime today, the dp wouldn't even be on the table.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2005 21:58:50 GMT -6
Powell was unarmed when he entered the store. He killed Ms. Gladden because she resisted and he was wasted. The tire iron was behind the counter. Yeah, he got carried away. Like Rick James said "Cocaine's a powerful drug!" Had he committed this crime today, the dp wouldn't even be on the table. Why do you say that?
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Post by damnyankee on Mar 8, 2005 22:09:56 GMT -6
Similar cases in which the dp was not given.
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Post by Tozzie on Mar 8, 2005 22:45:21 GMT -6
Powell was unarmed when he entered the store. He killed Ms. Gladden because she resisted and he was wasted. The tire iron was behind the counter. Yeah, he got carried away. Like Rick James said "Cocaine's a powerful drug!" Had he committed this crime today, the dp wouldn't even be on the table. He killed the victim because he is an animal. High on drugs is not an excuse nor reason. He got the sentence he deserved.
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Post by mnoutlaw on Mar 8, 2005 23:21:14 GMT -6
Powell was unarmed when he entered the store. He killed Ms. Gladden because she resisted and he was wasted. The tire iron was behind the counter. Yeah, he got carried away. Like Rick James said "Cocaine's a powerful drug!" Had he committed this crime today, the dp wouldn't even be on the table. let me guess you one of thoes *damn* do gooders that all you need to do is smack the crimanuls on the hand and say dont do that agine and let them go this myway of thinking if you kill then you will die if you still then you go to jail for a long and not to the rich cruntry clubs for rich people i think there should be more jails like the one from the show inside cell block f and the one out west where you live out side in tents if you had more like that then crime would go down and if the whole usa would go to the rules from some of the citys in the south and west that is if you are old enufh to own a hand gun and you do not care it you get a ticket in thoes citys the crime rate is verey low because you would know that that person you are thinking of robbing may just have agun and you could get killed and you would think twice befor you do stuped things now what do you have tothink of that damnyankee
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2005 1:01:51 GMT -6
they should torture him a long and painful death. Kill 2 birds with one stone got a killer and a drug user off the streets. Show him pictures of Mary and make him stare at her while being tortured.
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Post by damnyankee on Mar 9, 2005 1:24:39 GMT -6
I think that you need spell check. Anyway no, I ain't one of those darn do-gooders. Never really had an opinion for or against, but I wouldn't equate life in prison with a visit to Disneyland. If you want to apply this solution, then do it fairly across the board. In this case it's not. As to the concealed weapon sure, great protection from robbery, great for shooting someone during traffic altercations and for cheatin' spouses too.
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Post by damnyankee on Mar 9, 2005 19:52:37 GMT -6
From today's local paper n A Review of the Proportionality of Capital Sentences: This study was submitted as part of the defense’s information at the clemency hearing. One of Powell’s attorneys, Bill Massengale of Chapel Hill, learned about it three weeks ago “just by happenstance,” according to fellow defense attorney David Teddy of Shelby.
The independent study was conducted in 1997 by a former UNC Chapel Hill professor of sociology, Dr. Peter Bearman. Another attorney in another death penalty case commissioned Bearman to conduct the study on behalf of his client. After a jury imposes the death penalty, the N.C. Supreme Court is charged with comparing it to all others to make sure the sentence was imposed fairly.
Bearman’s study found the jury had imposed the sentence fairly in the case he was commissioned to study. However, he found one case that he called “egregious in its departure from the intent of the N.C. law.”<br> That was the case of William Powell. Bearman has never met Powell and knew nothing of his case. He said the analysis showed “clearly that Powell’s case is most similar to cases where juries found the death penalty inappropriate.”<br>
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Post by mnoutlaw on Mar 11, 2005 7:12:38 GMT -6
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D [shadow=green,left,300] Gov. Easley denies clemency (AP)
RALEIGH (AP) — The killer of a convenience-store clerk prepared for his execution early Friday as death-penalty opponents argued that his crime wouldn’t be punished as severely in 40 other states.
William Dillard Powell, 58, was sentenced to death in 1993 for killing Mary Gladden as he tried to rob her for drug money. Powell was high on cocaine and beat the 54-year-old Gladden to death with a tire iron he found in the Cleveland County store because she fought back, his lawyers said.
The U.S. Supreme Court declined late Thursday to review the case. Gov. Mike Easley denied clemency.
“Having carefully reviewed the clemency petition, I conclude that there are no compelling reasons to invalidate the sentence recommended by the jury and affirmed by the courts,” Easley said in a release Thursday night.
Ken Rose, director of the Center for Death Penalty Litigation in Durham, which is assisting Powell’s attorneys, said Powell does not deserve to be executed because he did not premeditate his killing and the only legally aggravating factor is attempted robbery. Forty other states would not allow an execution in such a case, Rose argued.
The state Supreme Court rejected a defense argument Wednesday that the courts had not adequately considered a recently lodged complaint claim of prosecutorial misconduct during Powell’s trial.
Attorneys said Cleveland County District Attorney Bill Young, who prosecuted the case, failed to reveal a deal with Powell’s girlfriend, Lori Yelton Donohue, in exchange for her testimony at the 1993 trial. Prosecutors are required to tell the defense about any promises made to witnesses.
Powell was moved Wednesday to the death watch area at Central Prison in Raleigh, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Correction said.
At mid-afternoon Thursday he had met with his lawyers, spokeswoman Pam Walker said. Powell’s sister also was scheduled to visit.
At 5:30 p.m., he had his last meal: A medium, thin-crust pizza with pepperoni, mushrooms and Canadian bacon; a hamburger with mustard, chili and onions and a 20-ounce Pepsi.
Powell would be the first person executed in North Carolina this year and the 35th since capital punishment was reinstated in 1977. No other executions are currently scheduled.
In addition to Powell, the state’s death row is home to 178 men and four women. That includes four defendants who committed their crimes as 17-year-olds whose death sentences were thrown out last week by the U.S. Supreme Court. Walker said the state has not yet received a formal court order to remove those four from death row. [/shadow] ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by mnoutlaw on Mar 11, 2005 7:14:54 GMT -6
Similar cases in which the dp was not given. he did it because she smacked him
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Post by damnyankee on Mar 11, 2005 8:46:03 GMT -6
What kind of pizza do ya think he had? Dominoes or Papa Johns?
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Post by texasnative on Mar 11, 2005 16:07:43 GMT -6
OK.
No 'death' penalty.
Let's just judge him guilty and then open the little manila folder with his offense in it and, in accordance with equality of punishment across cases, meet out punishment in accordance with his crime.
In this case, we would all get high on Coke and beat him to death with a tire iron.
...hey
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Post by dio on Mar 11, 2005 18:00:06 GMT -6
Powell declined to make a final statement. He told his sister, Lavonda Camp, through the double-paned glass in the death chamber that he loved her minutes before his execution started at 2 a.m.
He turned quickly toward the back of the room and spoke with his executioners as they began to administer the lethal injection. He then began to count down from 99. His lips stopped moving about the time he reached 95
Pronounced dead at 209am with a start time of 200am.Gee 9 minutes we're getting better at this ,if we ever caught up with Texas we'd have enuff practice to pump them up and out in under 5min I'd estimate ;D
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