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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***Thank you god....we got rid of another FILTHY MUSLIM TERRORIST who will dwell in the fires of hell with homosexual men raping soul forever***
Okay. We killed one individual out of how many in the United States that fit the title? Does that satisfy blood lust? What will you do with the other 3,999,999?
***should we really have state sanctioned execution? Unless we don’t have the guts to maintain truly life imprisonment.
I will answer that in the spirit in which it was offered. Touchie-feelie has been rampant forever, and you mean well.***
It’s not touchy feely. It’s being pro life. If an armed intruder breaks into my house, he’s going to deal with my .357 and my Mossberg 500 because that is the only means that I have to defend my wife and children. If he is truly incarcerated, then he will have no means to be able to escape and do that again. When I say weld the bars shut, I say that advisedly. But state sactioned execution, once granted, has no end and no limits.
***If one “life” prisoner escapes and kills again, it renders your argument moot.***
If I allow a hamster in a cage to escape, is it the hamster’s fault or is it mine?
***We have not lost a man. A sub-human mindless predator was exterminated.***
Actually, both statements are true. A man became a subhuman mindless predator. And that is a rather sad thing in a civilized nation.
We don't want him. He's being buried in Baton Rouge.
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