Posted on 11/10/2009 6:56:27 PM PST by Ravnagora
RICHMOND, Va. - John Allen Muhammad was executed Tuesday night for the sniper attacks in 2002 that left 10 dead and spread such fear people were afraid to go shopping, cut grass or pump gas.
The three-week killing spree in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C., was carried out with a teenage accomplice who is serving life in prison without parole. Muhammad, 48, died by injection at 9:11 p.m. EST after he exhausted his court appeals and Gov. Tim Kaine denied clemency.
Muhammad's attorneys earlier had asked Kaine to commute his sentence to life in prison because they said he was severely mentally ill.
"I think crimes that are this horrible, you just can't understand them, you can't explain them," said Kaine, a Democrat known for carefully considering death penalty cases. "They completely dwarf your ability to look into the life of a person who would do something like this and understand why."
Muhammad had been sentenced to death for killing Dean Harold Meyers at a gas station in northern Virginia. He and his accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, also were suspected of fatal shootings in Alabama, Arizona, Louisiana and Washington state.
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May God’s Mercy and Justice Prevail...alas, he was a child of God who did many evil things, and harbored a great deal of hate, but a child of God nonetheless. God will deliver his mercy and justice in his power.
Remember that we are all sinners. We will all be where he is now.
Good riddance!
He bought a white van and he's touring the country lecturing on racial profiling.
Snicker
That was a scary time in 2002 when those shootings occurred.
His execution should have been been swift, as justice should be swift to display and teach our intolerance toward murder and some other crimes.
Muhammad’s attorneys earlier had asked Kaine to commute his sentence to life in prison because they said he was severely mentally ill.......................... Yeah, buy into that and end up rewarding him for killing a dozen plus innocent people. What would judge Issac Parker have done after the trial? Certainly he wouldn’t have allowed this piece of human garbage become a public expense.
It sure was.
At least the victims’ families know that John Muhammad will never kill another innocent person.
I hope they can all sleep better tonight.
That’s why we say ‘may God have mercy on his Soul’
Wait. WAIT!
The bamster just commuted his sentence after a fine evening of hoops and chain-smoking. This is just too close in time to what happened at Ft. Hood and we don’t want the world to think we hate mudslimes...
What! Too late?
Just damn...
I will answer that in the spirit in which it was offered. Touchie-feelie has been rampant forever, and you mean well.
But I respectfully disagree.
It doesn't take guts to embrace the copout. It takes consummate arrogance.
The arrogance to ignore that the human ant colony isn't perfect, or never subject to irrational change.
If one "life" prisoner escapes and kills again, it renders your argument moot.
And since it has already occured more than once, the entire argument is forfeit.
We don’t only need to worry about an escape. Look to the number of correctional officers, nurses, doctors, teachers and other prison personnel who have been killed by people sentenced to life in prison.
Once a murderer is in prison for life there is absolutely no incentive to not kill again.
Of course you are right.
Hence the "welded shut iron cage" absurdity.
One other fact, Ted Bundy escaped twice from jail, his second escape allowed him to come to Florida. 11 more women were killed and a 9 year old little girl - he was executed for her murder and never killed anyone again.
We should not require them to wait until September to “become martyrs”, and could give them their choice of AM or PM, depending on whether they happen to be “morning” or “evening” persons.
With all respect to the Democrat judge who can't understand capital murder cases, I can only add that we simply have no punishment adequate to achieve justice or, so-called "cloture," in these cases.
So we send him to God and allow Him to decide what to do with him. (There are worse fates than death, after all.)
We have not lost a man. A sub-human mindless predator was exterminated.
Another sick Islamic psychos flushed down the drain. The cesspool ain’t half filled. The guy who killed two US Army recruiters, if he is still alive, should be next. And the last thing he should see is 72 pictures of Helen Thomas.
that’s your heaven, AHole!
Yes, I was looking for a good post for this exerpt from one article about him-
“Muhammad was born John Allen Williams and changed his name after converting to ISLAM.”
Islam. The wonderful religion of peace.
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