Paul Warner Powell, Virginia Death Row Inmate.
I'm not normally one to campaign for another human being's death, although I will admit I felt a twinge of disappointment when Rush Limbaugh told everyone he was in good health. But for real...THIS GUY...is not only an evil piece of shit, he is also REALLY, REALLY STUPID.
Apparently murderer/rapist/total waste of space Paul Powell saw the movie Double Jeopardy and while he was surely entranced by Ashley Judd's performance, he also gathered a little legal advice. Thinking he couldn't be re-tried for the same crime, Smarty McBrainy wrote a letter to the County Attorney in which he confessed, in great detail, that killing 16-year old Stacie Reed and brutally raping and attempting to kill her 14-year old sister was no accident and that he in fact planned to kill the entire family. Why? Because Stacie Reed wouldn't have sex with him. Oh, and she was dating a black man.
So then when Brainiac Jones decided to appeal his death sentence, the prosecutor gave the Supreme Court not only his letter to the County Attorney, which you can read here (starting at the bottom of page 7), they were also given copies of a letter he sent to his victims' mother (a taunting note attached to a cut out of a pornographic photo of a woman who resembled her murdered daughter) AND a note he sent to a friend who he asked to call his surviving victim and threaten her life if she moved forward to testify against him.
GENIUS.
Congratulations Paul Powell, Virginia Death Row Inmate. You win my first WTF Award. Just for being YOU.
