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Beltway Sniper Executed

John Allen Muhammad 'quiet and relaxed' before lethal injection

By Will McCahill,  Newser Staff

Posted Nov 10, 2009 8:18 PM CST | Updated Nov 10, 2009 8:25 PM CST
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(Newser) – The state of Virginia executed John Allen Muhammad, the so-called Beltway sniper, tonight, with the man who led the 2002 shooting spree that killed 10 dying of lethal injection at 9:11 EST. The 48-year-old was “quiet and relaxed,” a prison official tells CBS’ Andrew Cohen. “I didn’t hear him utter a word.”

Muhammad and teen accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo terrorized Washington and neighboring Maryland and Virginia during the three-week stretch. “We deeply sympathize with families of lost ones,” said a lawyer for Muhammad. Malvo, 17 during the spree, was sentenced to life in prison, the AP adds.

A van carrying the body of convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad leaves the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Va., tonight.
A van carrying the body of convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad leaves the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Va., tonight.   (AP Photo)
This recent but undated photo from the Virginia Department of Corrections shows convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad.
This recent but undated photo from the Virginia Department of Corrections shows convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad.   (AP Photo)
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brawne
Nov 12, 2009 12:17 PM CST
And now that the crazy chicken ass got suicide by state--do we feel better? 2002 to now is not long for death row, so he obviously didn't appeal. Does it change anything except to do for him what he was too cowardly to do for himself and in a much more humane and easy way than he could have drummed up? We are a very young, rich country--sorta the Paris Hilton of the world. We make profit from illness unlike our fellow rich but older counties. We execute the sick and poor but never the wealthy nuts, unlike our fellow rich but older countries and finally we feel superior to everyone just like Paris and wonder why 'people hate us for our freedoms'. No one hates us--do you hate Paris? They pity us for our youthful naive indulgence and hope we don't do anything too nuts. Like blow up the world. The Soviets were so convinced by Nixon et al that we'd blow up the world that they bankrupted themselves to keep us from planting missiles with their names in Afghanistan. So, we won the cold war by attrition, but the fact that they thought we'd do a first strike is something that the world has not forgotten. We are the loose cannon. We are the country that is feared and to fall to the notion of anyone being a threat to us is like Paris thinking her thighs are too fat. If, you felt no threat and no fear then you'd be an American. I'm a patriot--no fear, but fear itself. That fear itself thing is how they control you. I have no idea who they is I just needed a last line.
Unaffiliated
Nov 11, 2009 12:54 PM CST
Haha! You're saying Jayster is Tony Danza?
bewilderbeast
Nov 11, 2009 8:11 AM CST
America the Beautiful kills again. Another BARBARIC ACTION by an increasingly lost nation. The Empire is crumbling and you're busy in-fighting, fighting, slaughtering. Stop. Think.

 
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