November 10, 2009 in Nation/World

D.C.-area sniper executed

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Attorney Jon Sheldon on convicted killer John Allen Muhammad, above: “He’s guilty. But there are glimpses of him being thoughtful. People don’t want to see that. It’s much easier to wrap him up into the thing he did.”
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JARRATT, Va. — The mastermind of the 2002 sniper attacks that killed 10 in the Washington, D.C., region has been executed.

A prison spokesman says John Allen Muhammad died by injection at 9:11 p.m. Tuesday at Greensville Correctional Center.

Muhammad was executed for killing Dean Harold Meyers at a gas station during the spree that terrorized Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C., over a three-week period. His teenage accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, was sentenced to life in prison.

Prison spokesman Larry Traylor says Muhammad had no final words. He says he didn’t hear him utter a word the entire time.

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Six comments on this story so far. Add yours!

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  calvinandhobbes on November 10 at 11:02 a.m.

  Good for the judge. the families of those murdered get justice at last.

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  Rifleman__Dodd on November 10 at 7:19 p.m.

  How does one get justice for killing another man?

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  JFRENCH on November 10 at 8:41 p.m.

  Ummmm… By killing some crazy guy that killed their loved ones…. What goes around comes around.

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  Rifleman__Dodd on November 10 at 11:15 p.m.

  If he was “crazy” then diminished capacity would have been the appropriate legal defense.

  So killing people brings justice to those whom are already dead. I dont suppose them dead people are salivating much, by this killing/execution.

  So by “what goes around, comes around” we as a society must be as guilty as the person that we executed.

  You all didnt happen to vote for Bush did you?

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  SugarShane on November 11 at 1:26 a.m.

  It is wrong to kill. If you kill someone, then we will kill you. Makes sense to me.

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  empyrius on November 11 at 6:51 a.m.

  The “eye for an eye” bit is the Old Law, voided by the blessing of Jesus. I figured you “capitalists” would like another slave laborer anyway; he must have been killing white people . . .

  Anyways, the people that actually watched the execution do not seem to have found their peace: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/11/virginia.sniper.execution/

  Peace