Unless Virginia's governor steps in, sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammad will be executed Tuesday for attacks that terrorized the U.S. capital region for three weeks in 2002.The Washington Post, which is the major newspaper in the area where the attacks occurred, has chosen an interesting way to note this event. In today's issue it offers two articles - one on how his defense attorney has "detected a glimpse of humanity" in Muhammad, and the other on how executions don't bring closure to the families of victims. Kind of sounds like they're trying to guilt their readers into feeling bad about the execution.
Muhammad was sentenced to death for killing Dean Harold Meyers at a Manassas, Virginia, gas station during a spree that left 10 dead across Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C.
Muhammad is set to die by injection at Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt. His attorneys have asked Kaine to commute his sentence to life in prison because they say he is mentally ill. The U.S. Supreme Court turned down Muhammad's final appeal Monday.
He and his teenage accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, also were suspected of fatal shootings in other states, including Louisiana, Alabama and Arizona.
I was back there in 2003 and my host on that a trip pointed out the gas station in Manasas where Mr. Meyers was killed. It was a station he and his wife had often used and he was a little shaken that such random violence had hit so close to home.
I don't think my friend will be feeling terribly bad about Mr. Muhammad's demise.
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Execution set for Tuesday night... latest detailes on this case: http://www.35energy.com/news/Supreme-Court-rejects-sniper's-appeal.html
We only have one life to live. Let's not waste it by making bad decisions. We were given a free-will to choose life or death. Let us make it a point to always choose life. No matter how hard life is sometimes, it's always good to be alive!
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