Whatever Happened To….
….the D.C. Sniper?
Another in an occasional Where Are They Now series. Last featuring the shoe-thrower, this time we find out that the D.C. (or Beltway) Sniper is imminently due to head downstairs for an eternity of heat and pitchforks.
A judge in Richmond, Virginia, has set a Nov. 10 execution date for John Allen Muhammad (ooh look, there’s that religion-of-peace name again randomly) , mastermind of the 2002 sniper attacks in the Washington, D.C., area.
The attorney general’s office had requested a Nov. 9 execution. But Muhammad’s attorney Jonathan Sheldon says Prince William County Circuit Judge Mary Grace O’Brien delayed it one day. That’s because Nov. 9 is a Monday and they want government offices to be open the day before in case of any last-minute court action.
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. He was sent to different states, both with and without the death penalty, and rather like some bizarre card game began racking up the points wherever he went…six life sentences in Maryland alone would have kept him in prison overalls for a while after his one-time protege Lee Boyd Malvo took the stand against him.
Sheldon says Muhammad will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court and ask the governor for clemency.
Don’t bother with all that, Muhammad. Make your peace with your god, because vengeance is nigh.
I was wondering what happened with this the other day (odd things do just pop into my head). Now I know.
Let’s hope the execution is very painful.
My view on the death penalty is well known: -http://martynfindley.blogspot.com/2009/08/its-deal-bring-back-death-penalty-now.html
I have no sympathy for this individual at all. Unbelievable that they put the execution back for one day because of a murderers rights.
At least the taxpayer will soon be spared the food bill.
The victims certainly had no right of appeal. And it’s not as though he’s suddenly going to get an albi saying that he was performing on stage in the West End to packed houses at the time of the killings. It’d be legal chicanery to circumvent justice.
That’s an interesting link because it brings in some of those “bigger issues” you refer to in your comments. There can be no death penalty whilst we are in the EU (or even deporting someone to a country where they might face it) so my personal belief that we should bring it back would require us taking back our sovereignty too…and with all that would happen after such a move there is a bigger picture indeed.
It’s lethal injection or the Chair in Virginia, with injection the default if you can’t make your mind up. Not sure if Muhammad has chosen yet, but the result will be the same. Justice.
Not sure. As a devotee of the ROP, does that not mean he is automatically innocent? I think this is because…yes, he is black and I’m going to tell Jimmy Carter.
You’ve got me bang to rights there. It was probably racist even typing this post.
By way of atonement I will write out 100 times “Fight those who do not believe until they all surrender, paying the protective tax in submission”