Sniper John Muhammad executed
AP
By Frank Green
Published: November 10, 2009
Updated: November 10, 2009


UPDATE: Convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad was executed by lethal injection tonight at 9:11 p.m. for the Oct. 9, 2002, slaying of Dean Harold Meyers, 53, a civil engineer shot in the head at a Manassas-area gasoline station where he had stopped on his way home from work. He did not make a final statement.



What follows is coverage of Muhammad’s final day:

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine has declined to intervene and stop tonight’s scheduled execution of John Allen Muhammad.

“Having carefully reviewed the petition for clemency and judicial opinions regarding this case, I find no compelling reason to set aside the sentence that was recommended by the jury and then imposed and affirmed by the courts,“ said Kaine in a prepared statement



Muhammad, 48, was sentenced to die for the Oct. 9, 2002, slaying of Dean Harold Meyers, 53, who was shot at a Manassas-area gasoline station, one of 10 people killed and three wounded by Muhammad and his accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo.

Malvo, 17 at the time of the shootings, escaped a death sentence and is serving life without parole. The execution by injection is set for 9 p.m. at the Greensville Correctional Center near Jarratt.



Though there were 13 “sniper” victims in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, the two are believed also responsible for slayings in other states.

An undisclosed number of family members of the victims will witness the execution. According to media accounts, some area traveling from as far as Idaho and Alabama.

Jonathan Sheldon, one of Muhammad’s lawyers, noted that the U.S. Supreme Court and Kaine turned down his client.

“We respect their decisions and will make no more legal efforts to stop this process from going forward,“ he said.



Echoing a comment he made yesterday, Sheldon said, “In its effort to race John Allen Muhammad to his death before his appeals could be pursued, the state of Virginia will execute a severely mentally ill man who also suffered from Gulf War Syndrome the day before Veterans Day.“

Larry Traylor, spokesman for the Virginia Department of Corrections, said that at about 2:30 p.m. Muhammad was meeting with immediate family members and that he does not have a spiritual adviser. Muhammad’s attorneys are planning to meet with him later this afternoon, said Traylor.

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Charles, you took the words right out of my mouth!!!

Not a minute too soon.

Shows what kind of a coward he was since he didn't make any statement.

I just heard this on MSNBC News Update

I bet he didn't feel any remorse at all for his horrible actions! The world will be a better place without him!

Good riddance mother f**ker.

It's a shame that people who are executed can't die the same way they killed their victims. Lethal injection?? What a wuss way out. He should've been shot in the head, too. Oh, but that would be cruel and unusual punishment.:rolleyes:

It's a shame that people who are executed can't die the same way they killed their victims. Lethal injection?? What a wuss way out. He should've been shot in the head, too. Oh, but that would be cruel and unusual punishment.:rolleyes:

Well for me personally, I'd rather be shot in the head as opposed to lethal injection.

Being shot in the head is BANG! you're dead in a second whereas lethal injection is a whole procedure; being strapped to the gurney, putting the needle in a vein...

I know that in Russia they execute people with a shot to the back of the head. I don't know if that still goes on today.

Well for me personally, I'd rather be shot in the head as opposed to lethal injection.

Being shot in the head is BANG! you're dead in a second whereas lethal injection is a whole procedure; being strapped to the gurney, putting the needle in a vein...

I know that in Russia they execute people with a shot to the back of the head. I don't know if that still goes on today.

Well, you have a point there. I didn't think of it that way. I did see "Dead Man Walking", and I'm not sure how accurate the lethal injection scene was, but I'm guessing it was pretty close. It seems that it does take a while to do the whole procedure.

I live about 50 miles from DC, and there was actually two shootings here in Fredericksburg. One person was shot at our mall a few hours after my family was there. That person survived, but still. I also remember being at the school bus stop at 7 in the morning and it being dark and wondering if anyone was out there. We couldn't go out side in PE class, or anything like that. My sister was in Marching Band and they couldn't practice outside. The football team couldn't practice outside. It really was terror because they were in a large area and were targeting everyone.

Well, you have a point there. I didn't think of it that way. I did see "Dead Man Walking", and I'm not sure how accurate the lethal injection scene was, but I'm guessing it was pretty close. It seems that it does take a while to do the whole procedure.

Yeah, I saw that movie too. Lethal injection could take, on average, 5-10 minutes; you are "out" once you are given the drug that knocks you out.

Being shot in the head you're dead before you know what hits you.

I live about 45 minutes from where he finally got caught. I remember that time very well. I hope he burns in Hell.

Whatever happened to the electric chair? Gas chamber? Every time you hear about a death row inmate being executed, it's always via lethal injection. :confused:

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Oh boo hoo hoo for me too...ditto your sentiments as well... good riddance to this piece of rubbish...my heartfelt sympathies to his victims.

Whatever happened to the electric chair? Gas chamber? Every time you hear about a death row inmate being executed, it's always via lethal injection. :confused:

YES!!

But like I mentioned earlier, I think the chair and chamber is considered cruel & unusual punishment. How about the cruel and unusual punishment of the victims??:rolleyes:

YES!!

But like I mentioned earlier, I think the chair and chamber is considered cruel & unusual punishment. How about the cruel and unusual punishment of the victims??:rolleyes:
AMEN!! :clap :clap :clap Do any of the states even have electric chairs anymore? :rolleyes:

AMEN!! :clap :clap :clap Do any of the states even have electric chairs anymore? :rolleyes:

As of today these states allow the electric chair:
Alabama
Florida
South Carolina
Kentucky
Tennessee
Virginia


In the case of John Muhammad (Virginia) you are given the choice between the chair and injection. I read that he never gave his answer so he was given the injection.


By the way, the gas chamber is only in these states today:
Arizona
Maryland
Missouri

As of today these states allow the electric chair:
Alabama
Florida
South Carolina
Kentucky
Tennessee
Virginia


In the case of John Muhammad (Virginia) you are given the choice between the chair and injection. I read that he never gave his answer so he was given the injection.


By the way, the gas chamber is only in these states today:
Arizona
Maryland
Missouri

Actually, I believe Maryland banned the death penalty. That is why the trials were in VA and not MD.

Actually, I believe Maryland banned the death penalty. That is why the trials were in VA and not MD.

I could be wrong but I believe it is not totally banned in Maryland as of yet. Currently it has been suspended due to an investigation until the procedures used to carry out executions are approved of by its state law.

I could be wrong but I believe it is not totally banned in Maryland as of yet. Currently it has been suspended due to an investigation until the procedures used to carry out executions are approved of by its state law.

That might have been what it was. I wasn't positive it was completly banned. I had a feeling it was something like that.

I notice they used the "Gulf War Syndrome" as an excuse for his crimes :mad:

I say for execution go back to hanging and the firing squad.

I say for execution go back to hanging and the firing squad.
In cases like these, absolutely!!

I say for execution go back to hanging and the firing squad.
I totally agree.

It's too bad that this guy can only die ONCE!!!!

Too bad you can't put the electric chair inside the gas chamber, facing a firing squad!! :mad:

As of today these states allow the electric chair:
Alabama
Florida
South Carolina
Kentucky
Tennessee
Virginia


In the case of John Muhammad (Virginia) you are given the choice between the chair and injection. I read that he never gave his answer so he was given the injection.


By the way, the gas chamber is only in these states today:
Arizona
Maryland
Missouri

Add Nebraska to the Electric Chair list

Justice was served in my honest opinion. Too bad Malvo will not be eligible
to be executed because he was under 18 at the time of the murders.

Add Nebraska to the Electric Chair list

Not since Feb. 2008. Nebraska has stopped with the chair now.

Society wins again...and the crowd goes wild!!!!

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