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Malvo gets life sentence in 2002 killing. Teen pleads guilty in man's murder, attempt on woman's life. (CNN) -- Convicted teen sniper Lee Boyd Malvo was sentenced Tuesday to two terms of life in prison without parole after pleading guilty to murder and attempted murder. He was charged with killing Kenneth Bridges, 53, outside a gas station in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and attempting to kill Caroline Seawell at an arts and crafts store, also in Spotsylvania County. Malvo, 19, already is serving a life sentence without parole for the murder of FBI analyst Linda Franklin, 47, outside a Home Depot in...

FAIRFAX -- It looks like convicted sniper John Muhammad will go on trial again. Muhammad was sentenced to death last year after being convicted in the October 2002 death of Dean Myers in Prince William County, one of the fatal shootings that terrorized the Washington area. Now Fairfax County prosecutor Robert Horn plans to put Muhammad on trial for the death of Linda Franklin, another sniper victim. Muhammad's younger accomplice, Lee Malvo, was convicted and sentenced to life in prison last year for Franklin's death. Horan says Virginia lawmakers cleared the way for the second sniper trial when they approved...

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (AP) - Teenage sniper Lee Boyd Malvo was sentenced to life in prison without parole Wednesday for an October 2002 killing spree in the Washington, D.C., area that left 10 people dead. Malvo, 19, was sentenced a day after sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammad was given the death penalty. Malvo did not speak at the brief hearing. Malvo was convicted in December of the slaying of FBI analyst Linda Franklin, 47, outside a Falls Church, Va., Home Depot store. His defense team had argued that Malvo had been molded into a killer by the charismatic Muhammad. Muhammad used...

Posted on Wed, Dec. 24, 2003 Malvo spared the death penalty PROSECUTOR ATTRIBUTES JURY'S DECISION TO DEFENDANT'S YOUTHFUL APPEARANCE By Adam Liptak NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE CHESAPEAKE, Va. - A jury spared the life of Lee Boyd Malvo yesterday, instead sentencing him to life in prison without parole for murders and terrorism in the Washington-area sniper shootings last year. The sentence came just weeks after John Allen Muhammad, Malvo's mentor and partner in the sniper attacks, was also convicted of murder and terrorism and was sentenced to death. Malvo, 18, was 17 at the time of the crimes. The...

JOSH WHITE; The Washington Post VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - Jurors wept Thursday as they listened to a recording of the wails and sobs of sniper victim Linda Franklin's husband making the emergency call reporting his wife's shooting. "I'm at the Home Depot on Route 50," William Franklin screamed into a cell phone. The former Marine testified that he had been sprayed with his wife's blood, turned and saw her lying on the pavement. His words on the tape melted into loud cries. "She's shot in the head. Oh, my God." The three-minute 911 recording hushed Courtroom 10 in one of...

<p>October 10, 2003 -- FAIRFAX, Va. - Sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo's lawyers filed notice yesterday that they will mount an insanity defense at his murder trial next month.</p> <p>A court-appointed psychiatrist has met with Malvo more than a dozen times in recent months and those conversations formed the basis for the decision, according to defense lawyers.</p>

One of the two accused Washington snipers, John Allen Muhammad, pleaded not guilty at the start of his first trial over the 10 random killings last year that terrorised the US capital. Muhammad, 42, could face the death penalty if found guilty. The trial has drawn enormous attention in the United States and some relatives of the victims of the shootings were in court. Wearing a white shirt and black tie, Muhammad denied the four murder, terrorism and weapons charges against him and told Judge Leroy Millette he understood the accusations. He watched silently as the start of the selection...