He asked for it and we’re more than happy to oblige (via Richmond Times-Dispatch):
Paul Warner Powell, set to be executed July 14 for the 1999 slaying of a 16-year-old girl, has chosen electrocution as his means of death.
An avowed racist, Powell fatally stabbed Stacie Lynn Reed in her Manassas-area home after the two argued about her black boyfriend.
Powell’s lawyers have filed a clemency petition with Gov. Timothy M. Kaine and could still ask the U.S. Supreme Court to hear an appeal.
RT-D fails to mention the several other crimes he was convicted of, including attempted rape, rape, attempted capital murder, abduction, and grand larceny.
May he burn in hell.
I have known Paul Powell since I was about 12. I knew he had problems back then, I wrote him while he was in Springwood psychiatric facility. When I first heard about this I guess I was like 17 or 18 and hadn’t seen or heard from him in years. I must say it came as a bit of a shock to me, he always was joking around and playful. I don’t condone what he did at all.
I have a black fiance. I have mixed feelings on all of this. I don’t really know why I am really writing this. My only hopes are that Paul has found Jesus somewhere amongst this all. I am sorry that all these lives were ruined so early in life. May GOD have mercy………. but I know I have no right to judge…………..
Mr. Powell will receive justice from the court and mercy from god if he has accepted Christ as his lord and savior.
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he should die, but for a racist like him, he shouldn’t get the chance to seek mercy from God. Jason, you are a lonely virgin twit – grow up.
Paul Warner Powell deserves to be tortured and then executed with a katana sword.