POWELL, REGINALD
General Information
DOB: July 23, 1968
Race: African-American
Gender: Male
Crime and Trial
County of conviction: St. Louis City
Number of counts: Two
Race of victim: African-American/African-American
Gender of victim: Male/male
Date of crime: November 14, 1986
Date of sentencing: May 6, 1988
Date of execution: February 25, 1998
Legal status:
Trial Counsel:
Marianne Marxkors
Last counsel of record:
Gino F. Battisti
Battisti & Associates
7777 Bonhomme, Suite 1600
St. Louis, MO 63105
314-863-4151
Bruce Livingston
Federal Defenders of Eastern Washington & Idaho
Capital Habeas Unit
201 N. Main
Moscow, ID83843
208-883-1472 208-883-0180
Last judicial decision:
--Petition for habeas corpus filed under U.S. Supreme Court original jurisdiction, as well as application for stay of execution, denied by In re Powell, 522 U.S. 1144 (1998).
Reported Opinions:
--Sentence, conviction, and denial of post-conviction relief affirmed by State v. Powell, 798 S.W.2d 709 (Mo. banc 1990), cert. denied, 501 U.S. 1259 (1991).
--Habeas corpus denied by Powell v. Bowersox, 895 F. Supp. 1298 (E.D. Mo. 1995), aff'd, 112 F.3d 966 (8th Cir. 1997), cert. denied, 522 U.S. 1055 (1998).
--Petition for habeas corpus filed under U.S. Supreme Court original jurisdiction, as well as application for stay of execution, denied by In re Powell, 522 U.S. 1144 (1998).
Significant legal issues:
--penalty phase instructions effectively requiring jury to find mitigating circumstances unanimously in order to give them effect
--counsel's failure to fully inform Mr. Powell as to whether he should testify during the guilt and the penalty phase, before deciding that he should not so testify
--sentencing by trial judge when jury hung on penalty phase verdict