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"When Linda Franklin discovered she had breast cancer several years ago, she faced her mortality head-on, just as she had with every other challenge. The 47-year-old underwent a double mastectomy and overcame the brutal rehabilitation that followed, all with the attitude of a fighter who had survived a war zone and raised two children while putting herself through college. But Franklin had no chance against the sniper's bullet that struck her outside a Home Depot store on Oct. 14, 2002, tearing away the right side of her face and leaving her husband spattered with her blood. On Monday, the 18-year-old who authorities believe killed her goes on trial in Chesapeake, Va., charged with capital murder. Prosecutors believe Lee Boyd Malvo shot Franklin from a hiding place in the trunk of a car as his alleged accomplice, John Allen Muhammad, waited behind the wheel. Muhammad is already on trial in nearby Virginia Beach in another of the 10 sniper killings that terrified the Washington area last fall. Malvo's lawyers plan an insanity defense, arguing the young man was so indoctrinated by Muhammad, 42, that he no longer knew right from wrong. As an FBI analyst in Washington, Linda Franklin studied terror threats. It was a job she loved, friends say, and one at which she excelled. Katrina Hannum, Franklin's 24-year-old daughter, described her mother as "good at everything that she did." "She was an amazing, amazing woman who touched everyone that she came into contact with," a tearful Hannum testified at Muhammad's trial. She did not respond to requests for an interview."

Damn dude. Why are you plastering me with this? Because I laughed at a comment somebody made, and before the verdict came down?

Now that the nimrods have wimped out, it doesn't seem nearly so funny. Don't throw it in my face, I know what this "boy" (feh) did, and I understand the evil he and his act embody.

I truly thought he'd get the DP.