Posted on 04/27/2008 12:29:47 PM PDT by george76
Convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad was regularly whipped with hose pipes and electrical cords and beaten with hammers and sticks by family members during a brutal childhood, according to lawyers trying to save Muhammad from the death penalty.
The lawyers argued in a federal court petition filed this week that the jurors who sent Muhammad to death row for the 2002 sniper spree were improperly barred from hearing most of the evidence of the harsh life Muhammad faced as a child.
Muhammad and his teenage accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo , were convicted in 2003 of a random killing spree that left 10 people dead in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia over a three-week span in October 2002 that terrorized the nation's capital region. Muhammad was sentenced to death and Malvo was sentenced to life in prison.
Muhammad's brothers and sisters would have testified that they and Muhammad were regularly beaten by aunts, uncles and grandparents while growing up in Louisiana, when he was known as John Allen Williams.
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Too bad.
Hang them all.
guess what.. lots of people have crappy childhoods and don’t grow up to be murderers or rapists or criminals of any kind.. lots of abused children grow up to be contributing members of society... this is not an excuse for outrageous crimes.
And this means? Does this mean a person gets a free pass for cold-blooded murdering innocent human beings? Ah, no!
It’s too bad. It really is too bad. But the fact that you’ve been mistreated doesn’t earn you leniency when you go mistreat others. This man murdered ten human beings - by his own choice. He deserves the consequences of that choice.
The Maryland Court of Special Appeals compared Muhammad to Jack the Ripper, saying he terrorized the Washington region in a fashion similar to ...the notorious Victorian serial killer.
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many people have had terrible childhoods....it does not excuse them of cold blooded murder of innocents!!!
let the families of the victims have a say in the sentencing!!!
Too bad they didn’t beat Muhammed hard enough to make him room temperature.
The son of a b*tch lived into a very healthy adulthood as a mass murderer of infidel non-muslims.
As an evil little monster, I am sure Mohammed deserved to be beaten.
Muhammed murdered those people because they were non-Muslims, not because he was smacked around as a kid.
The Black Muslim was of clear conscience when he murdered 10 Americans, and he was of clear mind when he tracked them and picked them off from the concealment of his car's trunkspace.
Burn him alive, and then piss on the ashes.
Well, that’s sad. I hope they execute him as gently as possible.
as a society, we have rules. some put themselves so far outside what is allowable, that the rest of us want them gone, and quietly. we don’t send them somewhere to be rehabilitated, we execute them, and are done with them.
Millions of children survived Hitler trying to kill them. Most of them grew up to become doctors, teachers, parents, helpers of humanity.
Post of the Day.
LMAO!
I take it none of his siblings grew up to be serial killers after all those beatings. Maybe it was his conversion to Islam that pushed him over the edge?
I doubt very much any of the people he murdered beat him, sharpen the needle!
Obviously not hard enough. Maybe he needs a real beating now.
Aw.. poor man.. NOW hang em high..
The lawyer should be disbarred for wasting the Court's time.
ML/NJ
Oh,yeah, that excuses him alright. It is ok to kill people if you were beaten as a child. What BS.
What do they mean would have testified? Wasn't it a big enough case for them
to get involved in at the time? This is total BS
Here comes the “poor beaten child” defense ....
I never once in my 50 years on this planet intentionally harmed anyone.
This defense gets quite old with me!!!!
Why didn't his brothers and sisters turn into mass murdering Muslims?
Not badly enough, apparently.
Sorry muslim pederast. It’s time for you to die. When you do, we’ll laugh and mock your supporters.
Show that little violin.
The FBI shrink that evaluated him wrote a whole book about it; the boy's legal team tried to make it like he was juuuust fine before the dastardly old guy came along and ruined him, but that was 100% fiction.
The younger brat was just a reallllllly bad egg, and was determined to do some seriously evil stuff.
Oh a little known fact --he (the younger brat) almost did manage to escape from the FBI; he was in a holding cell and managed to displace ceiling paneling. He had crawled 1/2 out the building b4 the authorities knew what was up.
I don’t care if he was forced to sodomize the family dog. NO excuse.
Next.........................
The amazing ability of lawyers to fabricate the truth is an entertaining sideshow for most trials of mass murderers.
Ten shots from a bushmaster (one for each victim he slaughtered), at one yard. At least I think it's 10. If I'm wrong, adjust the shot count accordingly.
I live really close to where he did some of his dirty work. I'd much prefer Vlad the Impaler carry out the execution. But that's just me. -)
Sorry to hear this as I am sorry to hear of any abuse of kids.
As an adult he killed folks and terrified a whole area of the country.
Hang him.
“John Allen Muhammad was regularly whipped with hose pipes and electrical cords and beaten with hammers and sticks by family members during a brutal childhood,”
Good,they sould of it im harder.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
So, are his brothers and sisters all murderers too? If not, what does that have to do with anything?
How many people have abusive childhood’s and still don’t kill anyone?
The appellate lawyers said in their brief that "Muhammad apparently did not want to acknowledge his horrific childhood" and planned to deny any abuse, either on the witness stand himself or in interviews with the government's mental-health expert.
He should feel right at home in prison, then. Thanks geo.
So if the parents are alive, prosecute them for it. If they did this level of abuse and can be proven guilty, give them the death penalty, too.
Are you my long lost relative? My Mother busted my guitar over my head one night...didn't hurt too much but sure made a mess and the guitar was expensive to replace.
“...didn’t hurt too much but sure made a mess and the guitar was expensive to replace.”
Yeah, I hear you. I’m still ticked about the guitar and it’s been over 37 years.
At least we can laugh about it now!
Maybe the defense team needs to bring in Rev. Wright to argue that John Allen Muhammed was so oppressed by American society that he had to bring the chickens home to roost.
It’s too bad we can’t make the SOB suffer, he’ll get a nice clean execution in oh so many more years, unless the liberals save him.
Ah, does anyone really believe this? Even if true, so what?
What did his victims do in their childhood to deserve what he did?
I was occasionally spanked as a child. So that justifies and excuses my robbing a bank.....or at least farting in public.
So go arrest his rotten relatives, if they’re still alive. Heck, even let him take a swing or two at them before he gets the needle, if you like.
Ok, ok, but did he eat too many Twinkies???
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