Washington-area sniper John Allen Muhammad, 48, was executed Tuesday by lethal injection, CNN reports.
During three weeks in October 2002, Muhammad and accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo, then 17, killed 10 people and wounded three, while taunting police with written messages and phoned-in threats and demands.
During two trials — including one featuring testimony from Malvo, whose youth meant he was not eligible for the death penalty — and in years of appeals, Muhammad professed his innocence.
Muhammad’s attorney had argued his client was not given sufficient time to file his final appeal, but said Tuesday — after the high court and the governor declined his request for a stay — that he would make no further efforts to delay the matter.
Muhammad met Tuesday with J. Wyndal Gordon, who was his former stand-by attorney in his Maryland trial, in which he represented himself.
“His attitude was strong, it was sturdy,” Gordon told reporters. “Mr. Mohammad maintains his innocence in this case, and he always has. He is not remorseful, although he does extend his condolences to the families. What these families went through is tragic in every level. Given the injustices in this case, what Mr. Mohammad went through is equally as tragic.”
Gordon said he does not consider Mohammad to be insane. “However,” he added, “I am not a psychiatrist or a psychologist.”
The lawyer said Muhammad’s last meal was “chicken and red sauce, and he had some cakes.”
Gordon predicted earlier Tuesday that Muhammad’s strength would continue until his final moments.
“I expect that he will come into his death bed with this head held up high,” he said. “He is not a broken man and even on his death bed, he will express his righteous indignation for his own execution.”
Muhammad, who opted not to select a spiritual adviser, met during the afternoon with his immediate family.
According to prison official Larry Taylor, Muhammad appeared calm and said nothing during the entire procedure.
Traylor said a telephone line to the Governor’s office was open during the entire procedure and that when the prison warden asked whether there was any reason to halt the execution, was told there was no reason not to proceed, according to CBS affiliate WTVR-TV in Richmond.
He was declared dead at 9:11PM EST.
(Source: CNN / WCBSTV)
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Mazal Tov!
So long Mr Mohammad. Burn in hell for eternity. Sorry it had to take so long & cost us taxpayers so much $$$ to get you there.
What kind of lawyer is this Gordon animal?
Goodbye, and Good Riddance!! Now if Noodle Hasan will just go in your footsteps,,
Pretty nauseating to think about it. But if that’s what he deserves then so be it…
bhurn in gehenom you murdere
Beavod Reshoim Rino. May he soon be joined by Nidal Hasan Malik and all others who walk in the evil ways of the death cult of Moloch, renamed radical Islam.
What he did was inexcusable. But keep in mind, when the “government” puts someone to death, it isn’t some building somewhere that does the deed, it’s a person. The government gives a person the legal right to take the life of another person.
While it was certainlhy wrong for Muhammad to take the lives of so many people, how does another person taking a life make it right?
Would you be willing to administer that lethal injection? I wouldn’t.
“He was declared dead at 9:11PM EST.”
Considering he was supposed to die at midnight, I find it interesting he was executed earlier, and pronounced at this exact time.
#5 whats so nauseating?
Baruch Sh’piteranu. I don’t think gehenom has chicken and red sauce.
Declared dead at 9:11 – interesting, don’t you think so?
What a waste of chicken…
Haifagirl-
I feel for you and your bleeding heart ways. Really, I do. It’s sad, your misinformed.
Not only would I be glad to administer that lethal injection, I’m slightly dissappointed criminals arn’t executed the same way their victims were.
I mean how much more dramatic would it have been if all 10 families got to leave a slug in him?
And yes, I would be fine with administering that as well.
HAIFAGIRL #8 – Would you be willing to do it if, chas v’shalom, one of the murdered victims was someone close to you? I think you probably would. Being that in American law there is no such concept as kosher aiydeem, and any thief, murderer, drug dealer, etc. can be an aiyd (witness) there IS a problem in saying that I am for capital punishment. BUT – in a case like this, where it IS crystal clear that this guy murdered these people, he clearly (and halachically) deserves the death penalty.
I wish Israel would deal this way with yishmaeli terrorists. It would obviously prevent repeat offenses, it would save the already overburdened Israeli taxpayer from feeding and housing these “PEREH-adam”, it would send a message to other yishmaeli savages, and it would prevent any brilliant Israeli politicians from freeing them in return for things like video-tapes!
I find the whole thing sad and a waste.
Don’t get me wrong — I believe in the judicious use of the death penalty — and if multiple murderers don’t deserve the death penalty then I don’t know who does.
Likewise, I don’t have any sympathy for Mr. Muhammed himself. By his actions he certainly deserved his execution.
But nonetheless, I don’t find the execution as a reason to rejoice. I think it’s sad that we have to take this necessary step. The fact that so many people, including Mr. Muhammed, had to die for no apparent reason is a sad situation.
Yeah, it says “b’ibud r’shaim rina.” Sorry… I’m not feeling any joy in this. Yes, it was necessary and proper to carry out this execution – but I don’t feel like rejoicing for it.
The Wolf
Anonymous- I believe I was rejoicing in justice being served, should I have to be the one to carry out the justice, all the better, I’m sorry that you couldn’t defrentiate the difference.
Wolf-
“The fact that so many people, including Mr. Muhammed, had to die for no apparent reason is a sad situation.”
What are you smoking?
I think being put to death for killing 10 innocent people is a darn good and “apparent” reason to die.
“I think being put to death for killing 10 innocent people is a darn good and “apparent” reason to die.”
You misunderstood what I wrote.
I agreed with you that what the state did was justified. But he didn’t have to do this in the first place. By killing all those people he, in the end, caused his own death as well. He didn’t have to do this – in that respect there was no good or apparent reason for him to die.
The Wolf
It’s too bad that Lee Boyd Malvo wasn’t also given execution as a punishment, just because he was a minor at the time of the killings;
although he certainly isn’t a minor now.
His sentence is life imprisonment without chance of parole.
#8 the torah give the right to take the life of a rotzeach after he is prooven guily beyond reasonabble doubt ‘v’shftu hueaydah vehitzilu hueaydah’
#17 ‘bavod reshaim rino’..
haifagirl, my son knows unfortunately people in Jerusalem who very much would like to put to death the funders of Arab terrorism in Israel. Should my son introduce you to the families of these terror victims?
I hope you don’t live in Haifa because I feel very, very sorry for your neighbors.
just because he was a minor at the time
Even if he could have been sentenced to death, he would have certainly avoided it when he agreed to testify against Muhammed.
The Wolf
Anonymous – Oh I do. The question is do I chose to?
“But he didn’t have to do this in the first place. By killing all those people he, in the end, caused his own death as well. He didn’t have to do this – in that respect there was no good or apparent reason for him to die.”
Wolf – No need to get lumdish. The guy was an Islamo-psychopath, that’s why he did it. I just think of the death penalty as community service.
Haifagirl, I would gladly administer that lethal injection