Execution date set for Austin cop killer
Posted on March 2, 2010 at 2:58 PM
An execution date has been set for David Lee Powell, who killed an Austin police officer with an assault rifle during a traffic stop more than 30 years ago.
Powell is set to die by injection in Huntsville on June 15, 2010.
He was convicted of capital murder for the 1978 slaying of Ralph Ablanedo, who was hit by 10 bullets from Powell's AK-47. Powell has been sent to death row three times - most recently in 1999 - for the killing.
In 2009, the US Supreme Court refused to review his death sentence.
Ablanedo had pulled over Powell's girlfriend, Sheila Meinert, near downtown Austin for not having a rear license tag. Powell, who was wanted at the time for misdemeanor theft and for passing more than 100 bad checked in Austin, was riding in the car.
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