Posted on 11/08/2009 3:42:34 PM PST by HokieMom
Convicted Beltway sniper John Allen Muhammad is filing last-minute appeals, trying to avoid a Tuesday appointment in Virginia's death chamber.
The legal scramble is reviving memories for countless in the D.C. region who lived through the three weeks in October 2002 when Muhammad and his ward, Lee Boyd Malvo, went on a rampage that terrorized the capital region.
Picking out strangers at random, they opened fire from a hole cut in an old car, leaving notes behind to taunt police and to celebrate the carnage they inflicted. By the time the pair was finished, 10 were dead, three were wounded and many more who had already lived through the Pentagon attack on 9/11 and an anthrax scare were traumatized.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Meet the man who prosecuted the D.C. sniper
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/09/meet-the-man-who-prosecuted-the-dc-sniper/
Harry Jaffe: Should sniper John Allen Muhammad die on Tuesday?
Anybody else notice that islam was not mentioned in the article? That WAS the motivation for the murders.
I guess at this point seven years later, the writer assumes everyone knows. I would expect to see it readdressed in any of the analysis pieces, though.
I really doubt that’s why it wasn’t brought up.
In view of all the like reporting today of Fort Hood, you’re probably right.
Time to ride the lightning, Johnny.
“Roll on two!”
LOL
They don’t want to get the masses riled up.
Too late. The angry mob is everywhere.
I hope so.
He was convicted in a state court. Obama has no jurisdiction to commute anything.
They should have a TV feed of the execution to the hospital room of the Ft Hood jihadi.
Obummer will probably issue a Presidential pardon say it was all Bush’s fault that John Mahamoud killed all these folks.
http://www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/local/crime/article/EXEC28_20091027-215604/301974/
“If executed as scheduled Nov. 10, condemned Beltway sniper John Allen Muhammad will die by lethal injection, not electrocution.
Unless the courts or the governor intervene, Muhammad’s execution is set for 9 p.m. at the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt.”
Thanks for posting the scheduled time.
Thanks,
I will try to remember to raise a toast
at 9 p.m. eastern time on Tuesday.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
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