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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2010 21:35:18 GMT -6
Does Paul Powell qualify for the Darwin Award by virtue of the taunting letter he wrote to the DA? He avoided the death penalty in his first trial, and the letter has all but guaranteed him the hot seat on Thursday, March 18.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2010 0:16:26 GMT -6
Fore sure he does,& he gets the dumbass of the century to boot. fairdinkum what a dropkick loser.
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Post by rayozz on Mar 16, 2010 1:52:28 GMT -6
Sorry to you both.
He does not qualify!
You have to be dead!!
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Post by GlennF on Mar 16, 2010 14:47:38 GMT -6
Sorry to you both. He does not qualify! You have to be dead!! Rayozz Oh so that means he'll only qualify on the 18th March.
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Post by rayozz on Mar 16, 2010 17:16:01 GMT -6
That's right. It's basic definition is "to remove oneself from the gene pool in a spectacularly stupid manner."
So in Powell's case, he needs to be dead and then you have to decide if his letter writing was 'spectacularly' stupid.
It would be interesting to see what happens if his case was submitted to the Darwin committee.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2010 19:26:02 GMT -6
That's right. It's basic definition is "to remove oneself from the gene pool in a spectacularly stupid manner." So in Powell's case, he needs to be dead and then you have to decide if his letter writing was 'spectacularly' stupid. It would be interesting to see what happens if his case was submitted to the Darwin committee. Rayozz Well, I was only half joking. Now that I think about it, the letter writing *WAS* spectacularly stupid, and he will be dead in less than 48 hours. I might just nominate the dude. I remember the case from the local paper. Happened a few miles from me.
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Post by rayozz on Mar 16, 2010 19:40:14 GMT -6
I think you can now nominate online. I have a couple Darwin Award books, they are fairly fussy about who gets awarded.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2010 19:57:47 GMT -6
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Post by rayozz on Mar 16, 2010 21:27:56 GMT -6
Oh well! Love to know who submitted that! Rayozz
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Post by kingsindanger on Mar 16, 2010 22:56:57 GMT -6
This worthless pos should have been iced last year.
In the spirit of March Madness, I would give Powell the 1 seed in the East region and he will face this moron from PTO:
caribbeanblue77 "What this person has done was simply horrible. Still I think killing him is not the solution. Isnt it better for him to be faced with the pain he has caused in order to understand what he has done (If he is capable of that of course, I mean mentally). I am with a lifer myself. It took him 7 years to understand what he had done to the victims and the families, and to take full responsibility for that, to reflect about himself, and it took another 10 years for him to be the person he is now. If they had executed him, none of this change would have happened."
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2010 0:48:33 GMT -6
This worthless pos should have been iced last year. In the spirit of March Madness, I would give Powell the 1 seed in the East region and he will face this moron from PTO: caribbeanblue77 "What this person has done was simply horrible. Still I think killing him is not the solution. Isnt it better for him to be faced with the pain he has caused in order to understand what he has done (If he is capable of that of course, I mean mentally). I am with a lifer myself. It took him 7 years to understand what he had done to the victims and the families, and to take full responsibility for that, to reflect about himself, and it took another 10 years for him to be the person he is now. If they had executed him, none of this change would have happened." fairdinkum!!!!where do these numbskulls come from..
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2010 22:03:15 GMT -6
This worthless pos should have been iced last year. In the spirit of March Madness, I would give Powell the 1 seed in the East region and he will face this moron from PTO: caribbeanblue77 "What this person has done was simply horrible. Still I think killing him is not the solution. Isnt it better for him to be faced with the pain he has caused in order to understand what he has done (If he is capable of that of course, I mean mentally). I am with a lifer myself. It took him 7 years to understand what he had done to the victims and the families, and to take full responsibility for that, to reflect about himself, and it took another 10 years for him to be the person he is now. If they had executed him, none of this change would have happened." Yeah, the problem with this line of thinking is that these people are putting themselves in the situation and thinking how they would feel were they incarcerated forever for murder. BZzzzzzzz. You could put a sociopath like Paul Powell in prison until he turns 150, and he would never get it. Best to return such defective carbon units to the Manufacturer.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2010 1:23:44 GMT -6
Virginia to Execute Powell on Thursday FOX 5 speaks with victim's family, prosecutor Updated: Wednesday, 17 Mar 2010, 11:27 PM EDT Published : Wednesday, 17 Mar 2010, 11:26 PM EDT Bob Barnard bob.barnard@foxtv.com By BOB BARNARD/myfoxdc MANASSAS, Va. - Prince William County State's Attorney Paul Ebert has only witnessed one execution in his 42 years in office. That was the death sentence carried out against condemned serial sniper John Muhammad just last year. On Thursday night, Ebert plans to repeat the drive to Jarratt, Virginia outside of Richmond to witness Paul Warner Powell's death in the Commonwealth's electric chair. Powell, 31, was sentenced to die for the brutal murder of a Manassas teenager in January 1999. Stacie Reed was killed during an attempted rape inside her home. Three hours later, Powell repeatedly stabbed Reed's 14-year-old sister Kristie and left her for dead. Now 25 and living in Texas, Kristie Reed and her mother Lorraine Whoberry will accompany Ebert to witness Powell's execution. www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/local/paul-powell-execution-thursday-031710
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2010 8:16:30 GMT -6
Psychopaths who will brag about murder - trying to take control back ever and always - if their own words is what gets them prosecuted then GOOD! As if what he did is not horrific enough, he wants to make everyone even more miserable by taunting them too? AAAARGH He is a stain on this earth. Blessings and comfort are wished for Stacie's sister and their mother and all those who loved Stacie, may she RIP
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Post by Kay on Mar 18, 2010 11:10:31 GMT -6
For those of you who do not log into the home page when you visit the site, Charlene has posted a video interview with Stacie's Mom.
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Post by Stormyweather on Mar 18, 2010 11:24:24 GMT -6
I thought this article was fitting for this thread. Moron's letter lands him in electric chairIn Virginia, a man named Paul Warner Powell is scheduled to be executed tonight for killing a teenage girl, then raping the girl's younger sister. He was sentenced to death earlier, but a higher court overturned it. Powell mistakenly believed that he could not be sentenced to death again, so he wrote a taunting letter to the prosecutor in which he confessed, in gruesome detail. Actually, he could be sentenced to death again. And he was. blogs.kansascity.com/crime_scene/2010/03/morons-letter-lands-him-in-electric-chair.html
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2010 16:14:09 GMT -6
A good thing will happen this evening. Virginia's average IQ will rise 10 points when this POS stops breathing.
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Post by Californian on Mar 18, 2010 17:54:39 GMT -6
Tick tock. They should be shaving his head just about now. How can someone be so stupid? ;D
Washington (CNN) -- The murderer of a 16-year-old girl faces electrocution Thursday after a letter bragging about his crimes got him a cell on Virginia's death row. Attorneys for Paul Warner Powell plan no further appeals, and Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell has denied clemency. The U.S. Supreme Court in January refused to block the execution. The execution is set for 9 p.m. ET Thursday. Powell was convicted in the 1999 murder of Stacie Reed and the rape of her 14-year-old sister in their Manassas, Virginia, family home. Powell claimed double jeopardy after state prosecutors put him on trial for a second time in the killing. The high court in July delayed Powell's execution while considering the broader constitutional claims, which were finally rejected. The killer rejected lethal injection, the state's usual method of execution. "I'm hopeful this is the last legal chapter in the long history of this case," said Powell's prosecutor, Prince William County Commonwealth's Attorney Paul Ebert. "The survivors -- Stacie's mother and [her sister] -- have really been traumatized by delay after delay. Hopefully they're going to get some peace and closure after all these years." CNN does not identify sexual assault victims without their permission, even though the surviving victim, now 25, has talked publicly about the case. The crime shocked the Washington area. Stacie Reed knew Powell, then 20 and an admitted racist. The state's highest court eventually threw out the 2000 verdict in the first trial, saying prosecutors had not proven other necessary death-eligible offenses were committed against the 16-year-old. Such "aggravating" factors could include, rape, attempted rape or robbery in commission of the murder. The sexual assault and attempted murder of Stacie's younger sister was upheld, and Powell was given a long prison sentence. Powell, believing he was free from execution, proceeded to write a taunting, profanity-filled letter from behind bars to Ebert, laying out explicit details of the crime unknown to investigators at the time. "Since I have already been indicted on first degree murder and the Va. Supreme Court said that I can't be charged with capital murder again, I figured I would tell you the rest of what happened on Jan. 29, 1999, to show you how stupid all of y'all ... are," wrote Powell, who is white. He said he had gone to the Reed house to confront Stacie for dating a black boyfriend. He admitted pinning the victim, threatening to rape her, then stabbing her in the heart when the girl resisted. He then stomped on her throat. "I guess I forgot to mention these events when I was being questioned. Ha Ha!" he wrote in 2001. "Do you just hate yourself for being so stupid ... and saving me?" The killer also said that after that crime, he waited in the house until the younger girl returned from school, then attacked her, leaving her for dead. In the meantime, he drank iced tea from the family refrigerator and smoked a cigarette, part of the forensic evidence that investigators used to place Powell at the scene of the crime. With this firsthand account from Powell, he was indicted again and charged with murder and attempted rape of Stacie -- a capital-eligible crime. He again was convicted, and federal and state courts subsequently upheld the conviction on appeal.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2010 19:10:28 GMT -6
Yeah, I'm thinking we've gotten through the last words (which I am looking forward to reading about due to their potential entertainment value) and the switch has probably been thrown by now.
People escape from prison. Laws change and people are released. In the case of Paul Warner Powell, we can be thankful that, after today, we no longer have to worry. None of those errors will result in the violent, painful death of another woman or girl at the hands of Paul Warner Powell. Now may his name be forgotten forever.
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