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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...

<p>It was perhaps inevitable that the recent sniper killings in the Washington area suburbs would be seized upon by advocates of gun control. Like so much in the agenda of the political left, gun control arguments would collapse like a house of cards if people just stopped to think through what is being said, instead of being swept along by emotional rhetoric.</p>

Sniper puts heat on gun lobby Clarence Page Jewish World Review Oct. 11, 2002 While President Bush was addressing the nation from Cincinnati about the potential threat Saddam Hussein poses for our nation, folks in and around the nation's capital were grappling with a very real and present terrorist close to home. They call him "the Sniper." I am presuming that the Sniper is a "he" because of the knowledge we already have gathered from the similar sickos who came before him. Sure, women kill sometimes, but seldom in such an impersonal way. Serial sniping is, for the most part,...