Post by amoeba15 on Nov 10, 2009 9:33:24 GMT -5
D.C. Sniper John Allen Muhammed's Execution Going Forward; Appeal Thwarted by Supreme Court
The execution is set for 9 p.m. tonight at Greensville Correctional Center near Jarratt.
AND just think, just in time for Veteran's Day.
NEW YORK (CBS/AP) The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a request to block Tuesday's execution of Washington, D.C. sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammed.
The Court did not issue a statement Monday on why it refused to consider his appeal.
Muhammad's lawyer released a response to the Court's decision shortly after the ruling. "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," Jonathan Sheldon said.
Muhammad is scheduled to die by injection Tuesday at a Virginia prison for the slaying of Dean Harold Meyers at a gas station during a three-week spree in October 2002 across Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C.
Muhammad and his teenage accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, were also suspected of fatal shootings in other states, including Louisiana, Alabama and Arizona. Malvo is serving life in prison.
Muhammad still has a clemency petition before Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine.
www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/11/09/crimesider/entry5589484.shtml
The shootings of October 2002 put millions on edge in Virginia, Maryland and Washington and triggered one of the largest manhunts in U.S. history.
Highways were shut down. Schools were closed. People quickly pumped gasoline while looking over their shoulder.
The terror ended early on the morning of Oct. 24, 2002, when Muhammad, then 41, and his accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, 17, were captured at an interstate rest stop in Maryland in a 1990 Caprice, a former police car purchased for $250 and used in many of the attacks.
No place in the region seemed safe -- a Fairfax County high-school football team moved a game to Richmond to avoid the snipers' territory and ended up eating its postgame meal at a Ponderosa restaurant in Ashland two hours before the snipers shot and wounded a man outside it.
And anyone could be a target -- victims included men and women, whites and blacks, the mothers or fathers of 21 children; a shopper; a man mowing grass, and a 13-year-old boy about to step through the door of his middle school.
"Your children are not safe anywhere at any time," said a note to police in Ashland near the scene of one wounding.
The same note, left in a plastic sandwich bag, sought $10 million to stop the killing and was the basis for one of two death sentences Muhammad was given for killing Meyers. The other was for killing more than one person in a three-year period.
www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/local/crime/article/EXEC08_20091107-222006/304396/
The execution is set for 9 p.m. tonight at Greensville Correctional Center near Jarratt.
AND just think, just in time for Veteran's Day.
NEW YORK (CBS/AP) The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a request to block Tuesday's execution of Washington, D.C. sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammed.
The Court did not issue a statement Monday on why it refused to consider his appeal.
Muhammad's lawyer released a response to the Court's decision shortly after the ruling. "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," Jonathan Sheldon said.
Muhammad is scheduled to die by injection Tuesday at a Virginia prison for the slaying of Dean Harold Meyers at a gas station during a three-week spree in October 2002 across Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C.
Muhammad and his teenage accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, were also suspected of fatal shootings in other states, including Louisiana, Alabama and Arizona. Malvo is serving life in prison.
Muhammad still has a clemency petition before Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine.
www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/11/09/crimesider/entry5589484.shtml
The shootings of October 2002 put millions on edge in Virginia, Maryland and Washington and triggered one of the largest manhunts in U.S. history.
Highways were shut down. Schools were closed. People quickly pumped gasoline while looking over their shoulder.
The terror ended early on the morning of Oct. 24, 2002, when Muhammad, then 41, and his accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, 17, were captured at an interstate rest stop in Maryland in a 1990 Caprice, a former police car purchased for $250 and used in many of the attacks.
No place in the region seemed safe -- a Fairfax County high-school football team moved a game to Richmond to avoid the snipers' territory and ended up eating its postgame meal at a Ponderosa restaurant in Ashland two hours before the snipers shot and wounded a man outside it.
And anyone could be a target -- victims included men and women, whites and blacks, the mothers or fathers of 21 children; a shopper; a man mowing grass, and a 13-year-old boy about to step through the door of his middle school.
"Your children are not safe anywhere at any time," said a note to police in Ashland near the scene of one wounding.
The same note, left in a plastic sandwich bag, sought $10 million to stop the killing and was the basis for one of two death sentences Muhammad was given for killing Meyers. The other was for killing more than one person in a three-year period.
www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/local/crime/article/EXEC08_20091107-222006/304396/
