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damn that was 7 years ago
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32875308...me_and_courts/
RICHMOND, Va. - A Virginia judge on Wednesday set a Nov. 10 execution date for John Allen Muhammad, mastermind of the 2002 sniper attacks in the Washington, D.C., area that left 10 dead.
The attorney general's office last week requested that the execution be on Nov. 9, but Prince William County Circuit Judge Mary Grace O'Brien chose a day later. The date, which falls on a Tuesday, was picked so courts would be open the day before in case they have to take up last-minute appeals, said Jonathan Sheldon, Muhammad's attorney. The date was picked during an early morning conference call with the judge, the attorney general's office and Sheldon. Sheldon said Muhammad will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court and ask Gov. Timothy M. Kaine for clemency.
Muhammad was sentenced to death for the slaying of Dean Meyers, one of 10 people shot to death during a 2002 rampage that terrorized the Washington, D.C., area. Muhammad and teenage accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo killed six people in Alabama and Louisiana before moving on to Maryland, D.C. and Virginia, where Meyers was shot at a Manassas gas station. Six others were wounded.
Malvo, who was born in Jamaica, is serving life in prison for the shooting spree.
Last month a federal appeals court rejected Muhammad's argument that prosecutors withheld critical evidence and that Muhammad never should have been allowed to act as his own attorney for a portion of his trial because he was too mentally impaired.
The attorney general's office said it was preparing a statement Wednesday.
damn that was 7 years ago
Hard to believe, eh? I don't know what's more surprising: the fact that this was 7 years ago, or the fact that a death row inmate is getting executed after only 7 years.
Should have been done a long time ago.
His teenage buddy should be right there with him on Nov. 10
Agreed.
Wasn't one of the theories he wanted to kill his gf/wife so he killed these people to set it up?
Oh boy, I lived in the DC area during that whole thing and it was ed up. To say the least.
I can't even imagine.
You are walking in the park or on the street and someone can shoot you anytime from anywhere.
Yep it sucked really bad. The middle school where they shot the kid was 2 miles from my house!
Yeah but they never strike twice in the same location
Sounds like normal life in DC to me.
On topic, this punkass should've met MR. Sparky a long time ago.
Thats cuz a good sniper gets ya the first time.
(rimshot)
They really should bring the chair back. Executions are way too humane now.
Not at all.
About time.
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