John muhammad sniper execution
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Executed: D.C. Sniper John Allen Muhammad Put to Death
Nov. 10, 2009— -- Just after 9 p.m.
John muhammad sniper execution
this evening -- seven years and 12 days after he was captured and later charged with orchestrating a cold-blooded shooting spree, that killed 10 people in 2002 and terrorized the Washington, D.C., area for weeks, John Allen Muhammad, the convicted so-called D.C.
sniper, was put to death by the state of Virginia.
He was killed by lethal injection, at Greensville Correctional Center, about an hour south of Richmond after Virginia Governor Tim Kaine, as expected, declined to grant a request to commute the sentence to life in prison.
He was pronounced dead at 9:11 p.m., prison spokesman Larry Traylor told reporters.
He said he didn't hear Muhammad utter a word the entire time. When asked if he had any last words, Traylor said Muhammad, "did not even look at us or acknowledge us."
The execution was witnessed by several relatives of the victims of the killings, which we