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David Powell Execution Set for Tonight

By Steve Hall

"Elusive justice in the death chamber," is the title of a Dallas Morning News editorial, today. Powell's three-decade stay on Death Row also draws into question the legal requirement that jurors must find that a defendant possesses "future dangerousness." Powell's attorneys argue that since he has been a model prisoner with a record of helping others behind bars, jurors reached the wrong conclusion on the threat he poses. If the death penalty erases no real threat and fails as a deterrent, it serves no purpose other than retribution. There is no debate that Powell's crime was a cruel act and he should pay an extraordinarily high price. Today, jurors have an option that juries didn't in Powell's three trials: life without the possibility of parole...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 15, 2010 (boomark / email).