Muhammad

[Yuriatin]

DC sniper Muhammad set to die by lethal injection

(AP) – 57 minutes ago

RICHMOND, Va. — Convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad will die by lethal injection when he is executed next month, Virginia officials said Tuesday.

Muhammad declined to choose between lethal injection and electrocution, so under state law the method defaults to lethal injection, Virginia Department of Corrections spokesman Larry Traylor said.

Muhammad is scheduled to be executed Nov. 10 for the October 2002 slaying of Dean Harold Meyers at a Manassas gas station during a string of shootings.

In all, 10 people were killed were in four states, including Alabama and Louisiana, before Muhammad and teenage co-defendant Lee Boyd Malvo moved on to Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia for a rampage that terrified residents of the D.C. region. Six people also were wounded.

Malvo is serving a life sentence.

Muhammad's lawyers have asked the Virginia governor for clemency and plan to file an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court early next month.

[sistactry]

DC Sniper schedule to be executed Nov 10

(CNN) -- Convicted Beltway sniper John Allen Muhammad is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection November 10, a Virginia corrections official said Tuesday.

"Inmate John Muhammad was offered a choice in method of execution, and he declined," Larry Traylor said. "Under the code, if the inmate declines to choose, it defaults to lethal injection."

Attorneys for Muhammad argued last week that he should be given clemency on the grounds that he has a severe mental illness that worsened while he served in the Persian Gulf War.

Attorney Jonathan Sheldon said he and other attorneys presented Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine's representatives with audio interviews with attorneys, mental health experts and witnesses rather than a written document. They said they plan to file an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court on November 3.

Kaine's office said that any information on the clemency request would come in the form of a news release at a later date.

[sistactry]

Re: DC Sniper schedule to be executed Nov 10

a good~

[Dr.Dudd]

Re: DC Sniper schedule to be executed Nov 10

He is a coward.

quick to murder the innocent, and now don't even have the guts to chose how to go himself??
he have to leave that to others??<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SistaCtry</div><div class="ubbcode-body">a good~ </div></div>

[Yuriatin]

Re: DC Sniper schedule to be executed Nov 10

They should've also executed BTK.

He killed 10 people - that they <span style="font-style: italic">KNOW</span> of.

He's sitting happy as a bump on a log in prison for the rest of his life, getting 3 squares a day.

[mountaingal]

Re: DC Sniper schedule to be executed Nov 10

i'll never agree with the death penalty.

[Dr.Dudd]

Re: DC Sniper schedule to be executed Nov 10

Do they have the death penalty in that state??<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Yuri_</div><div class="ubbcode-body">They should've also executed BTK.

He killed 10 people - that they <span style="font-style: italic">KNOW</span> of.

He's sitting happy as a bump on a log in prison for the rest of his life, getting 3 squares a day. </div></div>

[Dr.Dudd]

Re: DC Sniper schedule to be executed Nov 10

I don'y either, but he could murder others, surely he does.<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MGee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">i'll never agree with the death penalty.
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[sistactry]

Re: DC Sniper schedule to be executed Nov 10

me a rack me brain, is who BTK??

[Yuriatin]

Re: DC Sniper schedule to be executed Nov 10

I can understand that MG - but if it's going to be had - it should be across the board - none of the <span style="font-style: italic">&quot;this jurisdiction that jurisdiction, this state, that state&quot;</span> mess.

Could be because I lived all the way THRU the dc sniper weeks, there IN the district, bobbing and weaving while getting gas and ducking into CVS, that it cuts me so.

And yes I lived in Witchita KS for 2 flippin' years and we were quaking in our boots wondering when BTK would strike next.



<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MGee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">i'll never agree with the death penalty.
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[Yuriatin]

Re: DC Sniper schedule to be executed Nov 10

A serial killer in Wichita that was caught a few years ago.

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SistaCtry</div><div class="ubbcode-body">me a rack me brain, is who BTK?? </div></div>

[Seveen]

Re: DC Sniper schedule to be executed Nov 10

so few states don't have the death penalty

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/state_by_state

[Derek]

Re: DC Sniper schedule to be executed Nov 10

Another MKULTRA Manchurian Candidate, in the style of Mark Chapman and Siran Siran.

Yes, he pulled the trigger...

[Cultcha]

Re: DC Sniper schedule to be executed Nov 10

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MGee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">i'll never agree with the death penalty.
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You would if it was your son/daughter that was one of his victims.

[Dr.Dudd]

Re: DC Sniper schedule to be executed Nov 10

Why?
you think everybody is so selfish and shallow??

They can't empathise enough for another person??<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Cultcha</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MCGee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">i'll never agree with the death penalty.
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You would if it was your son/daughter that was one of his victims. </div></div>