http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/dcsniper/ en-us Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:25:21 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1799231/posts I have compiled (quite easily, I might add) a list of murders and attempted murders carried out by Muslims acting on the basis of what the founder of Islam taught them. Convinced that they will go to heaven if they die killing infidels who Mohammed taught his followers to hate, some Muslims don’t bother joining al Qaeda or some other organized band of thugs. They get so filled with hatred from hearing Islamic sermons and visiting jihadi web sites that they decide to become freelance Jihadis. The condition is recognizable and has been labeled Sudden Jihad Syndrome (SJS) — although... Journal Chretien http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1799231/posts#comment Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:25:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2386094/posts Three days after his father's execution, the 27-year-old son of D.C. sniper John Allen Muhammad said Friday that he doesn't want to be judged by the crimes of a father he didn't really know until the shooting spree. Striking an almost defensive chord, Lindbergh Williams told reporters, "I am the son of the D.C. sniper, but not him. You see what I'm saying? I am my own man and make my own decisions." Muhammad was put to death Tuesday in Virginia for killing Dean Harold Meyers at a gas station during an October 2002 shooting spree that left 10 people... Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2386094/posts#comment Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:07:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2385093/posts One of the D.C. sniper's ex-wives said Thursday that she has fully healed from the abusive marriage she endured with him, and is helping her children cope with knowing their dad won't be a part of their lives. Mildred Muhammad, 49, told The Associated Press in a phone interview that she and her three children watched news coverage of John Muhammad's execution in silence at their Maryland home. When his death was announced, the children - John, 19, Salena, 17, and Taalibah, 16 - went into different rooms and cried. "It was very difficult to see them in that kind... hosted http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2385093/posts#comment Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:13:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384164/posts John Allen Muhammad, the "D.C. sniper" of autumn 2002, is no more. The commonwealth of Virginia put Muhammad to death last night last night for the murder of Dean Harold Meyers at a gas station in Northern Virginia. Muhammad and his accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, were also convicted of six murders in Maryland and suspected of three killings in other states. Malvo, who was under 18 at the time, will live. It was a curious accident of timing that Muhammad's execution came less than a week after the massacre at Fort Hood. This passage from an Associated Press story is... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384164/posts#comment Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:54:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383825/posts “Fearless.” This is what the attorney for the DC Sniper, John Muhammad, called his client before his execution today. The same man who had no problem murdering 10 people during a rampage in 2002. As he prepares to meet his Maker, let John Muhammad think of those people he butchered. He obviously has no regrets, has used the race card in decrying the killing of ‘an innocent black man’ (himself), and will, no doubt, become to hero to wannabe jihadis worldwide. It may be too much to ask, but God help Muhammad repent for the evil he committed. Cross-posted at... Young Gun Conservative http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383825/posts#comment Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:52:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383549/posts RICHMOND, Va. - John Allen Muhammad was executed 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, died by injection at 9:11 p.m. EST after he exhausted his court appeals and Gov. Tim Kaine denied clemency. Muhammad's attorneys earlier had asked Kaine to commute his sentence to life in prison because they said he was... MSNBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383549/posts#comment Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:56:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383527/posts JARRATT, Va. -- John Allen Muhammad, the sniper who kept the Washington region paralyzed by fear for three weeks as he and a young accomplice gunned down people at random, was executed Tuesday night by lethal injection. The Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383527/posts#comment Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:21:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2383440/posts Here is video of a Virginia Prison Spokesman giving a detailed preview of the upcoming execution of D.C. Sniper Mastermind John Allen Muhammad, who will be executed tonight at 9:00 PM ET. . . . (VIDEO) Freedom's Lighthouse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2383440/posts#comment Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:34:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383436/posts JARRATT, Va. (AP) - Sniper John Allen Muhammad is meeting with relatives in the hours before his execution and one of his attorneys described the convicted killer as fearless. Attorney J. Wyndal Gordon said Muhammad had no regrets and would die with dignity Tuesday night in Virginia. Gordon also insisted that Muhammad was innocent. Gordon says Muhammad met with one of his sons before the execution and then reminisced with the attorney about the time he spent with his son before Muhammad went to prison. Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383436/posts#comment Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:28:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2383429/posts D.C. sniper John Allen Muhammad is scheduled to die by lethal injection tonight. Do you believe in the death penalty? washingtontimes.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2383429/posts#comment Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:08:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383400/posts D.C. sniper John Allen Muhammad is scheduled to be executed Tuesday night in Virginia. Muhammad was given the death penalty for the murder of Dean Harold Meyers, who was shot while pumping gas. In total, Muhammad and his teenage accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, fatally shot 13 people in the Washington, D.C., area in the Fall of 2002 npr http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383400/posts#comment Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:16:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383393/posts Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine (D) denied clemency for John Allen Muhammad on Tuesday, clearing the way for the sniper to be executed by lethal injection at 9 p.m. and putting an end to one of the most trying local criminal cases in U.S. history. Muhammad, 48, was convicted of capital murder in the slaying of Dean Harold Meyers on Oct. 9, 2002, at a gas station outside of Manassas, part of a spree that left 10 people dead in the Washington area and included shootings in several other states. A jury in Virginia Beach, where the trial was moved... The Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383393/posts#comment Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:09:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383382/posts t - 3 hrs and counting down.. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383382/posts#comment Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:03:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383203/posts WASHINGTON - The man at the center of the investigation for the sniper shootings says he won't be at John Allen Muhammad's execution Tuesday night. "I don't think I will be personally interested. I have seen a lot of death and destruction and I don't think I am interested anymore," former Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose tells Channel 5. Moose was the face of law enforcement during those three terrifying weeks in October 2002. Muhammad is scheduled to be executed at 9 p.m. for the killing of Dean Harold Meyers at a Manassas gas station. Meyers is one of... WTOP.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383203/posts#comment Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:45:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383125/posts RICHMOND, Va. – Gov. Tim Kaine denied clemency Tuesday for sniper John Allen Muhammad, clearing the way for him to be executed for the attacks that terrorized the nation's capital region for three weeks in 2002. Muhammad is set to die by injection Tuesday night at Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt. His attorneys had asked Kaine to commute his sentence to life in prison because they say he is mentally ill. The U.S. Supreme Court turned down his final appeal. AP via YahooNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383125/posts#comment Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:02:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383085/posts RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine has cleared the way for the execution of sniper John Allen Muhammad. Kaine denied Muhammad's clemency request Tuesday. Muhammad is scheduled to die by lethal injection Tuesday night at a Virginia prison for killing Dean Harold Meyers at a gas station during a three-week spree that left 10 people dead in 2002 across Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383085/posts#comment Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:08:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383007/posts Hello, Mike Ruane here to talk about the DC sniper case and answer your questions. _______________________ The Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383007/posts#comment Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:49:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382961/posts Looking for Update... Is John Muhammad breathing? What is the schedule? Maybe a "Live" Thread, For a bit of irony As the day goes on... Vanity http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382961/posts#comment Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:43:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382533/posts MOUNTAIN HOME, IDAHO -- The setting sun is streaming in the living room window of Marion Lewis's house as he puts aside his cigarette and starts telling the story of the day his daughter was murdered. break He remembers the day, Oct. 3, 2002, when Lori Lewis Rivera was shot to death by the D.C. snipers at a gas station in Kensington. Two thousand miles away, her father was oblivious, out in the wilderness running a giant rock-crushing machine. Lewis stares at the floor as he recalls it, kneading his beefy hands and wiping away tears with his fingers. break... WP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382533/posts#comment Mon, 9 Nov 2009 23:39:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382475/posts WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday declined to block the execution of John A. Muhammad, the sniper who terrorized the Washington area seven years ago. The step cleared the way for Mr. Muhammad to be put to death on Tuesday unless Gov. Tim Kaine of Virginia intervenes. The court did not comment in refusing to hear Mr. Muhammad’s appeal, but three justices objected to the relative haste accompanying the execution. Justice John Paul Stevens complained that “under our normal practice,” Mr. Muhammad’s petition for the court to take his case would have been discussed at the justices’ conference scheduled... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382475/posts#comment Mon, 9 Nov 2009 22:41:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382426/posts Seven years after he and his teenage sidekick terrorised the Washington area with a three-week killing spree using a high-powered rifle, John Allen Muhammad — the “Beltway sniper” — is due to be executed tonight by lethal injection. The execution is reviving memories for the millions of people in Washington, Virginia and Maryland who spent October 2002 crouched in their cars as they pumped petrol, ducking and weaving across open spaces and running into schools with their children, glancing anxiously at nearby woods. Muhammad, a former soldier and 41 at the time, and Lee Boyd Malvo, then 17, triggered the... Times Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382426/posts#comment Mon, 9 Nov 2009 21:38:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382262/posts The Supreme Court Monday denied John Allen Muhammad's request to stay his execution, clearing the way for Virginia to put to death the man who terrorized the Washington region as the Beltway Sniper. Justices John Paul Stevens, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor objected to the court's haste, saying it "highlights once again the perversity of executing inmates before their appeals process have been fully concluded." Stevens, writing for the three, said Virginia had short-circuited the process by scheduling Muhammad's execution for Tuesday night, earlier than the court would normally have reviewed his petition for the court to take his... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382262/posts#comment Mon, 9 Nov 2009 18:19:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382251/posts RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to block Tuesday's scheduled execution of sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammad. The Court did not comment Monday on why it refused to consider his appeal. Muhammad is scheduled to die by injection at a Virginia prison for the slaying of Dean Harold Meyers at a gas station during a three-week spree in October 2002 across Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382251/posts#comment Mon, 9 Nov 2009 18:11:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381770/posts Convicted Beltway sniper John Allen Muhammad is filing last-minute appeals, trying to avoid a Tuesday appointment in Virginia's death chamber. The legal scramble is reviving memories for countless in the D.C. region who lived through the three weeks in October 2002 when Muhammad and his ward, Lee Boyd Malvo, went on a rampage that terrorized the capital region. Picking out strangers at random, they opened fire from a hole cut in an old car, leaving notes behind to taunt police and to celebrate the carnage they inflicted. By the time the pair was finished, 10 were dead, three were wounded... The Washington Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381770/posts#comment Sun, 8 Nov 2009 23:42:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379274/posts RICHMOND, Va. — Attorneys for John Allen Muhammad released a May 2008 letter on Wednesday in which the mastermind of the deadly 2002 sniper attacks in the Washington, D.C., area proclaims his innocence. The rambling, handwritten letter was made available because of requests for a statement from Muhammad, his attorneys wrote on the Web page of their law firm. The letter was filed in federal court in connection with Muhammad's unsuccessful attempt to block his execution, the attorneys said. ap http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379274/posts#comment Thu, 5 Nov 2009 17:42:12 GMT