D.C. Sniper execution to go forward

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Execution set for DC sniper John Allen Muhammad

Associated Press/AP Online

By DENA POTTER

JARRATT, Va. - Virginia's governor refused to spare the life of John Allen Muhammad and cleared the way for his execution Tuesday night for the sniper attacks in 2002 that left 10 dead and spread such fear people were afraid to go shopping, cut grass or pump gas.

The three-week killing spree in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C., was carried out with a teenage accomplice who is serving life in prison without parole. Muhammad, 48, was to die by injection at 9 p.m. after he exhausted his court appeals and Gov. Tim Kaine denied clemency.

Muhammad's attorneys had asked Kaine to commute his sentence to life in prison because they said he was severely mentally ill.

"I think crimes that are this horrible, you just can't understand them, you can't explain them," said Kaine, a Democrat known for carefully considering death penalty cases. "They completely dwarf your ability to look into the life of a person who would do something like this and understand why."

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Less then an hour from now...and many good folks will have closure for their families.


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I think we are way too easy on many criminals. How many of us would have a hard time sleeping if we stumble across a rapist caught in the act? I wish the sentence and penalty were more swift and severe. I bet that "element" would think twice before they acted out.
 
Roughly an hour from now there will be one less pimple on the buttocks of society...
 
My only regret is that it took nearly seven years. Too bad he won't suffer anywhere near as much as his victims.
 
He is getting what he deserves and way too late in my book. We had a big case in Knoxville for the ghastly murder of 2 young people. The jury found him guilty on something like 41 of 42 charges.

I don't know if this was because he has to say it or not, but the judge told the jury when they had to reconvene for sentencing, it was more expensive to execute him than to give him life.

They sentenced him to death anyway thank goodness.
 
When you sentence a criminal to death in California, you almost guarantee a lifelong pay check to a defense attorney to file one appeal after another. It is a wonderful system. Please raise my taxes to pay for housing more criminals and paying more defense attorneys. Think of it as a form of economic stimulus. What would Porsche dealers do without death row.
 
Seven years is not long for an execution. If it had been a state charge instead of federal there would have been more appeals that would have kept this air stealing POS alive for twenty or more years.
 
Good riddance.

As to the great public expense to execute criminals vs. house them for life: It is certainly more cost-efficient to issue carry permits and dispense summary judgment at the time of the crime.
 
charlie sherrill said:
Seven years is not long for an execution. If it had been a state charge instead of federal there would have been more appeals that would have kept this air stealing POS alive for twenty or more years.
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I was gonna say the same thing. It seems, here in Florida, it's easily 12,15, or 20 years until justice is served?!
 
Bye bye . I was a nervous wreck with a pregnant wife and small child during that time. I would not let her go to the gas station alone and I would drop her and my son off at the door wherever we went and took my own chances from the parking lot to the door. He got what he deserved but his little buddy needs to go too. He knew *** he was doing.
 
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I usually take no pleasure from an execution. He certainly deserved it and the punishment was just. His partner in these cowardly murders should have joined him on the table. The Old Dominion tends to get the executions done faster than many states. I am a Virginian and though I live on the coast, I well remember the terror that those two forms of vermin created. I don't feel any pleasure in this but I think it was the propper end for this thing.
 
When you sentence a criminal to death in California, you almost guarantee a lifelong pay check to a defense attorney to file one appeal after another. It is a wonderful system. Please raise my taxes to pay for housing more criminals and paying more defense attorneys. Think of it as a form of economic stimulus. What would Porsche dealers do without death row.

Lawyers drive Porsches in California?
 
charlie sherrill said:
Seven years is not long for an execution. If it had been a state charge instead of federal there would have been more appeals that would have kept this air stealing POS alive for twenty or more years.
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Charlie, he was tried on state charges, not federal. Just a clarification. Apologies if I am misunderstanding your post.

Be safe.
 
charlie sherrill said:
Seven years is not long for an execution. If it had been a state charge instead of federal there would have been more appeals that would have kept this air stealing POS alive for twenty or more years.
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Charlie it WAS state charges. They choose VA cause they figured it was the best chance of actual execution. And it looks like they wwere correct. 7 years from conviction to execution is pretty quick based on experience-usually it is north of 10-12 years.
 
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