As the News & Messenger works to bring you the latest on the execution of convicted killed Paul Powell, a team of reporters and a photographer will report from the Greensville Correctional Facility in Jarratt, Va. starting Tuesday. Breaking news reporter Uriah A. Kiser will file video reports for our Web site and has also created a video blog about this event. Watch for them on insidenova.com and watch all of the blog entries in their entirety at youtube.com/whahooa.
It’s been 10 years since Paul Warner Powell killed Lorraine Reed Whoberry’s oldest daughter and nearly killed her youngest.
Next week, Whoberry will witness his execution. Her surviving daughter, Kristie Reed, will be there, too. And Prince William Commonwealth's Attorney Paul Ebert will be by their side.
But, Whoberry said, her family has tried not to think much about Tuesday night, when Powell will be put to death in Virginia’s electric chair.
“It’s really hard to allow my mind to go there,” she said. “But we’ve managed to stay busy and not think about it a lot.”
In tomorrow’s News & Messenger, Whoberry talks about grieving and forgiveness in the years since 16-year-old Stacie Reed and her then-14-year-old sister, Kristie, were brutalized in their Yorkshire home.
The story is the first in a series the News & Messenger will undertake between now and Tuesday, chronicling what Whoberry calls "the last chapter" in her family's long struggle to deal with what happened that day in Yorkshire.
The following stories will appear in Sunday’s News & Messenger:
-- More from the Reed family on what the execution means to them.
-- Overview of the January 1999 attacks that left the community reeling, along with comments from Powell’s lawyers on last-ditch efforts to save the killer’s life.
-- Anatomy of an execution in Virginia
-- Prince William County has more killers on death row than any other jurisdiction in Virginia. We take a look at past and current death row inmates.
-- Look for a special report on our Web site at insidenova.com, including past stories, an interactive timeline of the case and links to court records in the case.
On Tuesday, execution day, we will have two reporters in Jarratt, Va., to cover the execution. Watch for updates at insidenova.com and in the News & Messenger.
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