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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

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DC Sniper Execution - Muhammad Execution

John Allen Muhammad, the person who masterminded the sniper attacks in 2002 that left 10 people dead was finally executed at Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, VA prison. He died by lethal injection at around 9:11 p.m. Tuesday. The accomplice of Muhammad, Lee Boyd Malvo, is now serving a life imprisonment sentence. The DC sniper execution has put a closure to the years of torment for the families of the victims.

Here's a report about the execution from USA Today:

JARRATT, Va. — John Allen Muhammad, the mastermind of the 2002 deadly sniper rampage that terrorized the nation's capital, was executed Tuesday evening.

Many of his victims' relatives watched as Muhammad was administered a lethal injection of drugs. The execution came more than seven years after the 48-year-old Gulf War veteran and his young accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, 24, killed 10 people and wounded six others. Malvo is serving a life prison sentence.

A prison spokesman says John Allen Muhammad died by injection at 9:11 p.m. Tuesday at Greensville Correctional Center.

Prison spokesman Larry Traylor says Muhammad had no final words. He says he didn't hear him utter a word the entire time.
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