[Unknown Freeper]

Can't they prove he was an adult at the time? Bump for later read.

[Madame Dufarge]

With little evidence directly tying Mr. Muhammad to the shooting with which he is charged, Prince William County prosecutors could, under the antiterror law, paint him as the mastermind, a criminal Svengali.

Well, it's an outside shot, but go for it.

Mr. Malvo told the detectives that the men used two-way radios to look out for the police.

A videotape recovered from a security camera near the Home Depot parking garage in Falls Church, Va., where Linda Franklin , an F.B.I. analyst, was killed on Oct 14. The videotape shows someone who appears to be Mr. Muhammad inside the driver's seat of the car.

[Humidston]

How about a form of reverse jury nullification? I doubt either of these defendants will find a sympathetic jury anywhere after the way they terrorized that region.

[wretchard]

There is something seriously wrong with a system in which the death of fetus or an old person is viewed as a public good while the execution of an unrepentant, multiple murderer is considered an evil to be avoided at all costs. It's an absurdity which can't be adequately explained by philosophical, religious or even cultural reversals of the age.

It may have less to do with ideology than with the fact that the unborn and the very old are essentially voiceless, feeble and unable to hire lawyers. On the other hand, Muhammed, Malvo and their ilk are bursting with an evil kind of vitality, and are well able to lobby, plead and cajole. There is no shortage of fools willing to believe them.

A society is very often measured by how well it treats the truly helpless and how strongly it restrains the predatory. On that score, liberalism has failed miserably, and for the most infamous of reasons: not for a lack of brains, but from a surfeit of cowardice.

[trebb]

If either on of them ever breathes a free breath again it will be yet another sign that evil is winning some big battles...

[Cindy]

PURE SPECULATION....Malvo may have pulled the trigger, but who was his teacher, mentor, enabler, encourager, and er...."step-father" type figure? Muhammed won't get off and neither will Malvo. That's my opinion.

[afraidfortherepublic]

What about the murder in Tacoma of the daughter of Muhammad's business partner -- the young lady who answered the door and was shot in the face? Seems to me that Muhhad's friend said that he had loaned the gun to Muhhamad. Was malvo even in the country at that time?

[pabianice]

"Undocumented immigrants are only here to better themselves and the country..."

-- Democratic Party