Kharma

[classicman]

I can't believe this hasn't been done yet, but my search skills on the Cellar are limited.
I was looking for a place to put stuff like this. The kind of stuff where Kharma or whatever finally catches up to someone.

It doesn't have to be as serious as this, but ...

Powell was convicted in 2000 of killing Stacie Reed and raping and attempting to kill Kristie Reed. Powell and Stacie Reed were acquaintances. The Virginia Supreme Court overturned the verdict, saying Powell couldn't get the death penalty because he did not rape or rob Stacie or commit other death-qualifying offenses.

Thinking he could no longer face the death penalty, Powell then wrote a profanity-laced letter to Ebert graphically detailing Stacie's slaying.

Powell, who is white and a self-avowed racist, wrote that he went to Stacie's house to talk to her about her black boyfriend, pinned her down and threatened to rape her, then stabbed her in the heart when she fought back. He then went downstairs, had a cigarette and some iced tea, and waited for Kristie to get home from school.

"Do you just hate yourself for being so stupid and for (messing) up and saving me?" he wrote to Ebert in 2001.

Ebert withdrew the first indictment and charged Powell with killing and attempting to rape Stacie, a capital crime. Powell was convicted again in 2003 and sent to death row.

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I hope his sentence is carried out soon.