Posted on 10/27/2009 11:42:22 PM PDT by kingattax
The mastermind of the sniper attacks that terrorized Washington-area residents in October 2002 will die by lethal injection next month, a Virginia corrections official said Tuesday.
The state will give convicted killer John Allen Muhammad a lethal injection because he declined to choose between that and electrocution.
"So under the Code of Virginia it defaults to lethal injection," said state Department of Corrections spokesman Larry Traylor.
A prisoner has until 15 days before the execution to decide on which method, according to Virginia law.
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Death by needle... OH WELL, no JIHAD.. No VIRGINS FOR YOU!!!
Good. Get rid of it.
injection? sounds expensive.
can’t they just drop him in the middle of the beltway @ 4:15p on a wednesday afternoon...
you could put it on live feed and start taking bets... another money maker so he has a chance to give back to the community
(ok... that was a bit dark ;)
It was the other one who actually pulled the trigger though, no?
No, no I’m sure he asked for both. Injection first, and then just as he goes to sleep, wake him up with the electrocution thingy. Yeah, that’s the way you do it. Money for nothing and your chics for free.
They let him CHOOSE? Something is severely wrong with that.
What are the requirements for performing this service to society, and is there a crash course?
While I would take no pleasure in causing the death of another human being, I also would have no qualm about ending the life of a proven murderer.
I won’t go into what I would add to his final needle, but suffice it to say it would condense the suffering of the families into the VERY SHORT remainder of his life.
IIRC, I think both of them pulled the trigger at different times.
But this guy was the father-figure who corrupted the boy, who otherwise might well have grown up to be a decent human being.
The other one should share the same fate. He sniped unsuspecting people out in public.
Now begins the whole sorry endgame.
BTW, not attacking your statement. Just stating my opinion on this particular case.
While I am not generally sympathetic to murderers (including drug-involved gang-bangers), Lee Boyd Malvo always struck me as a kid who probably SHOULD have turned out quite decent, but who was unfortunately ideally positioned to misled, brainwashed and corrupted by this SOB Muhammed.
Malvo was 17 when he took part in the murders, and was described as having been a quiet, respectful, “good kid” type. It has always seemed clear to me that there was some really heavy-duty manipulation going on by the father-figure Muhammed (which father figure young Malvo desperately needed).
I’m just not sure how a vulnerable 17-year-old resists the kind of mind games that 40-something Muhammed played on him, unless he has an unusual level of mental and moral clarity and maturity.
In this case (and it’s the only case I can think of offhand where I would say this), I think life in prison without parole sounds about right. Life in prison without parole and with sadness for all of the lives lost, including that of a kid whose biggest problem, it seems to me, was that he fell under the influence of the wrong man at the wrong time.
Your opinion is a reasonable one. The crimes were horrible indeed. I'm just not at all sure that young Malvo really quite understood the horror of what he was doing, given the mind-twisting that was laid on him by the one apparent male older authority figure in his life. This never seemed to me a scheme that Malvo would've dreamed up on his own, he just wasn't that kind of kid as far as I saw. Not an expert on the case by any means, just my impression based on what I heard and read at the time.
From the vault of memories...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/769545/posts
The Sniper Archive—
Free Republic | 10-15-02 | The Heavy Equipment Guy
Just like that? No “FREE THE SNIPER” T-shirts?
Another one who should have gotten life in prison w/o parole was Montgomery County Police Chief Moose who refused to publicize more accurate descriptions of the then-suspects, rather than let anyone think the perps might be ‘of color.’ So how many people died because that information was withheld. We were assured it was two redneck types.
While they were on the loose, I sure remember driving around looking at every white van and truck, racing from my parked car into stores, and being terrified trying to fill my gas tank. Even Governor AntiDeathPenalty won’t grant this guy clemency. Too many people were affected in one way or another.
prisoner6
Concur with your thought process.
How about death by injection with no drugs? Just stab the SOB with needles until he dies.
No, get out the snipers and let them try injecting him with lead first.
I’d like to see a rope and a crane. Rope around his neck then lift him so his toes just touch the ground. Slow suffocation.
Or the old Apache torture of staking him out and building a fire on his abdomen.
Heavy metal poisoning, eh?!?!
In his eye?
Kind of like the wisdom of Solomon.... I like it.
They should do a Gary Gilmore on this punk.
I like this.
Moose sure was a piece of work, wasn't he?
Even Governor AntiDeathPenalty won’t grant this guy clemency. Too many people were affected in one way or another.
Well, the gurney and needle certainly couldn't happen to a more deserving guy than John Allen Muhammad.
“Moose sure was a piece of work, wasn’t he?”
He sure was taken in with his own fleeting celebrity. And there was clearly a certain amount of racism involved, as well. Then he went on to bigger and better things. Ain’t this one helluva country ?
Well, once someone has demonstrated that they can fail at one level, that apparently qualifies them to be promoted so they can produce bigger and better failures.
yep .. isn’t that called “The Peter Principle?”
Bury him securely up to his knees, then let any US citizen that wants to, pitch a rock at him.
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