JARRATT -- Paul Warner Powell died in the
electric chair last night for the 1999 capital murder of a 16-yearold
girl in her Manassas-area home.
Powell, 31, was sentenced to death for the Jan. 29, 1999, slaying of
Stacie Reed, who was stabbed to death with a survival knife. After
killing her, Powell then waited for her 14-year-old sister to return
home from school, raped her, cut her throat, and left her for dead.
Kristie Reed lived and testified against him.
Given a chance to make a last statement, Powell declined. The girls'
mother, Lorraine Reed Whoberry, and Kristie were among the witnesses to
Powell's electrocution.
He was pronounced dead at 9:09 p.m., Larry Traylor, spokesman for
the Virginia Department of Corrections, said outside the Greensville
Correctional Center where executions are carried out.
A half-dozen members of Virginians for Alternatives to the Death
Penalty held a candlelight vigil in a field near the prison. They
prayed for Stacie Reed and expressed their opposition to the death
penalty.
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