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Robert Leleux on David Lee Powell, Revisited

By Steve Hall

Utne Reader has published a condensed version of Robert Leleux' original Texas Observer reporting on David Lee Powell's impending execution in June.  It's titled, "Thou Shalt Not Kill. Unless . . ." A good friend told me something startling. She said that, barring some unforeseen event, a good friend of hers was going to be poisoned to death by the state of Texas.Her friend?s name was David Lee Powell, and David was a convicted criminal who was sentenced to death for the vicious, evil murder of a police officer named Ralph Ablanedo.I recognize that David Lee Powell?s crime was heinous. And yet I don?t believe he was a heinous man. I don?t believe the state had the right to kill him. I also doubt, very much, that any of this?the shooting of a police officer or the poisoning of a convicted murderer?would have registered as more than a passing blip on the radar screen of my mind if I hadn?t been personally affected, albeit in an extremely indirect manner, by this sorrowful series of events...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on November 05, 2010 (boomark / email).