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Viewing an Execution

By Steve Hall

That's the title of Austin American-Statesman reporter Tony Plohetski's account of witnessing the execution of David Powell.  It's subtitled, "Psyche of veteran police reporter challenged inside death chamber."  It appeared in the Sunday Outlook section.  Here's the beginning:Covered with a white sheet and minutes from death, David Lee Powell had already begun craning his head toward me and others as we filed into the crowded witness room. The prison door slammed shut behind us, and Powell ? his strapped-down arms stretching out and with intravenous lines in them ? continued a piercing stare at the family of the Austin police officer he killed more than three decades ago. With only a window and a few feet between them, he looked at each, appearing to almost greet them by name ? if only through eye contact...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 21, 2010 (boomark / email).