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David Lee POWELL. was the shooting of police officer Ralph Ablanedo by David Lee Powell. Fellow police officers and others attend to Ralph Ablanedo after he was shot by David Lee Powell on May 18, 1978. Ablanedo's friend and partner, Bruce Mills, is turned toward the photographer.
Jun 16, 2010 · David Lee Powell, 59, became the longest-serving inmate executed in Texas and one of the longest-imprisoned in the nation to die.
David Lee Powell, 59, was executed by lethal injection on 15 June 2010 in Huntsville, Texas for killing a police officer at a traffic stop. On the evening of 17 May 1978, Austin police officer Ralph Ablanedo, 26, pulled over a vehicle for not displaying a rear license plate.
Jun 15, 2010 · David Lee Powell was executed Tuesday, 32 years after he killed an Austin police officer with an AK-47 assault rifle, the Austin American-Statesman reports. Powell's case involved three trials and multiple appeals, including the U.S. Supreme Court's rejection of the latest appeal on Tuesday.
Sep 1, 2012 · Heavily armed, deeply paranoid and strung out on drugs, David Lee Powell was a nightmare personified in 1978. Sitting in a car that had been pulled over on a dark Austin side street, Powell...
- Chuck Lindell
David Lee Powell was executed in the US state of Texas on 15 June for the murder of a police officer committed in May 1978. He had been on death row for more than half of his life.
Nov 12, 2023 · David Lee Powell shot Ablanedo with an AK-47 during a routine traffic stop. At his murder trial, Powell was found guilty and sent to Texas' death row.
