http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/johnallenmuhammad/ en-us Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:21:07 GMT Focus Forum 15 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-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-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/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/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/2373862/posts Jihadist John Allen Muhammad to be martyred next month. thelastcrusade.org The leader of the 2002 DC-area Islamic terrorist attacks will die by lethal injection next month, Virginia officials said Tuesday. John Allen Muhammad was reported to be furious when told that his 72 virgins had been replaced with fire and brimstone. Muhammad is scheduled to be executed Nov. 10 for the October 2002 slaying of Dean Harold Meyers at a Manassas gas station during a string of shootings. Muhammad's three-week Islamic-jihad in October 2002 left 10 dead in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia. Muhammad and his teenage... The Last Crusade http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2373862/posts#comment Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:35:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372063/posts RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad will die by lethal injection when he is executed next month, Virginia officials said Tuesday. Muhammad declined to choose between lethal injection and electrocution, so under state law the method defaults to lethal injection, Virginia Department of Corrections spokesman Larry Traylor said. Muhammad is scheduled to be executed Nov. 10 for the October 2002 slaying of Dean Harold Meyers at a Manassas gas station during a string of shootings. Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372063/posts#comment Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:27:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2350908/posts Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine said Monday he can't think of any reason he would stop the execution of Washington, D.C.-area sniper John Allen Muhammad. Muhammad is scheduled to be executed Nov. 10 for the October 2002 killing spree that left 10 dead in the nation's capital, Virginia and Maryland. "I know of nothing in this case now that would suggest that there is any credible claim of innocence or that there was anything procedurally wrong with the prosecution," Kaine said on his monthly call-in radio show on WTOP. Kaine said he would review Muhammad's petition for clemency when he... , Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2350908/posts#comment Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:35:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2344387/posts SNIPPET: "(check out comment #7, page 1)" INTERNET-HAGANAH.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2344387/posts#comment Sun, 20 Sep 2009 23:21:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013794/posts McLean, Va. (AP) -- Convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad has changed his mind again and now wants to go forward with a federal appeal of his conviction and death sentence, according to his lawyers. In a handwritten letter from death row made public this week, Muhammad told the Virginia attorney general that he wanted to suspend all appeals on his 2003 death sentence and that appeals filed on his behalf were not authorized. But Muhammad's lawyer, James Connell, wrote a letter Thursday to a U.S. District judge saying Muhammad now wants to go forward with his appeal. "Mr. Muhammad expressly... AP via SFGate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013794/posts#comment Fri, 9 May 2008 22:57:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2012148/posts Convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad asks prosecutors in a letter for help to put an end to his legal appeals from death row. Muhammad says in the letter released Tuesday that he is waiving all rights to appeal his 2003 conviction and death sentence for the sniper killings in 2002 that terrorized the Washington, D.C., region. Muhammad says he has tried without success to stop efforts by his defense lawyers, AP via SFGate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2012148/posts#comment Tue, 6 May 2008 21:22:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2007184/posts Lawyers Argue Muhammad Had Mitigating Factors Jurors might not have sentenced convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad to death if they had known that he was abused as a child, that he has brain damage and that there were conflicting witness accounts to some of the shootings, Muhammad's appeals lawyers argued in court papers this week. washingtonpost. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2007184/posts#comment Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:27:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1921291/posts Washington-area sniper John Allen Muhammad does not deserve a new trial in Maryland, a state appeals court ruled Monday in a sharply worded unanimous decision that compared Muhammad to Jack the Ripper. The state Court of Special Appeals said Muhammad terrorized the Washington region in a rampage similar to that of the notorious Victorian serial killer who murdered at least five East London prostitutes in 1888. But the three-judge panel noted one distinction: "Jack the Ripper has never yet been brought to justice. The Beltway snipers have been." Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo were convicted last year on six counts... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1921291/posts#comment Mon, 5 Nov 2007 20:43:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1786733/posts In Salt Lake City, Utah, on February 12, 2007, wearing a tan trench coat, Sulejman Taloviæ , age 19,went on a shooting rampage killing five civilians and wounding several others at Trolley Square, a Salt Lake City shopping mall, before being fatally shot by police. The killings by Talovic, a Bosnian Muslim, was immediately labeled NOT a terrorist act. Both the authorities and the media took pains NOT to identify him as a Muslim. In 2002, Muslim convert John Allen Muhammad, one of the Washington, DC snipers, killed 10 innocent Americans and wounded three more critically. Authorities claimed no connection... From Sea to Shining Sea http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1786733/posts#comment Sun, 18 Feb 2007 00:25:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1640721/posts Washington-area sniper John Allen Muhammad was convicted of six more of the killings Tuesday after a trial in which he acted as his own attorney and the prosecution's star witness was his young protege and partner in crime, Lee Boyd Malvo. Muhammad, 45, is already under a death sentence in Virginia for a killing there. The most he can get for the six Maryland slayings is life in prison without parole. The jury took slightly more than four hours to convict him after a four-week trial. The trial marked the first time Malvo testified against the man prosecutors say was... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1640721/posts#comment Tue, 30 May 2006 18:46:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1640723/posts (AP) ROCKVILLE, Md. A Maryland jury has found John Allen Muhammad guilty of six counts of murder for the October 2002 Washington-area sniper shootings. The announcement Tuesday afternoon followed four weeks of prosecutors, experts and witnesses presenting evidence against Muhammad and Muhammad defending himself with the argument that he had been framed. Acting as his own attorney, Muhammad told the jury in his closing argument Friday that he was only in the Washington area during those three terrifying weeks to search for his ex-wife and children. He said government agencies planted evidence and collaborated to pin the crime on him... CBS2CHICAGO http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1640723/posts#comment Tue, 30 May 2006 18:47:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1640724/posts ROCKVILLE -- A Montgomery County jury this afternoon found sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammad guilty of shooting and killing six people in the county during the 2002 sniper shootings. Muhammad is not eligible for the death penalty in this trial, which is his second. In 2003, a Virginia Beach jury sentenced him to death for planning and coordinating the sniper spree. Authorities said they brought Muhammad to Montgomery County as insurance, in case his first conviction is overturned on appeal, and because the sniper shootings began and ended here. Muhammad, 45, and his convicted accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, shot 13... The Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1640724/posts#comment Tue, 30 May 2006 18:47:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1637912/posts The sniper's plan: kill six whites a day for 30 days By Harry Mount in New York (Filed: 25/05/2006) One of the two snipers who murdered 10 people in a killing spree that terrorised Washington has revealed their plans to kill hundreds of children, policemen and rescue workers in an attempt to shut down cities across the country. John Allen Muhammad, 45, and his accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, 21, brought America's capital to a standstill in 2002 as they picked off white targets at petrol stations and shops in the city's prosperous suburbs. Muhammad: ‘a coward’ Malvo testified that Muhammad,... The Telegraph (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1637912/posts#comment Thu, 25 May 2006 03:40:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1424374/posts Rockville -- Snipers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo were indicted on murder charges Thursday for six deaths in Maryland during the 2002 killing spree. Muhammad, who was sentenced to death for a sniper killing in Virginia, also could be sentenced to death if convicted of the new charges in Montgomery County. AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1424374/posts#comment Thu, 16 Jun 2005 21:16:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1400777/posts THE WASHINGTON TIMES Convicted snipers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo will be tried together in Montgomery County, where their three-week shooting spree began and ended in October 2002. Virginia Gov. Mark Warner announced yesterday that he has agreed with Maryland Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. to transfer the two men to Maryland to stand trial on six counts of murder. Ten were killed and three wounded in the Washington-area shootings. "Now that Virginia's prosecution ... has concluded, it is important that families of the victims of the sniper incidents in other jurisdictions have an opportunity to seek justice,"... Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1400777/posts#comment Wed, 11 May 2005 08:19:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1400526/posts Richmond -- Snipers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo will stand trial next in Maryland, where six of the 10 slayings that terrorized the Washington area in the fall of 2002 took place, Virginia's governor decided Tuesday. Muhammad, 44, and Malvo, 20, will be sent across the Potomac River to stand trial, Gov. Mark R. Warner said. Montgomery County State's Attorney Douglas Gansler said he planned to try both men on the six murder charges the county filed against them a day after their arrest. "These defendants need to be tried under another set of laws and another set... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1400526/posts#comment Tue, 10 May 2005 22:23:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1353917/posts WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Lee Boyd Malvo will not stand trial for a sniper shooting in Manassas, Virginia, according to a prosecutor who said Tuesday's U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning juvenile executions would make a trial pointless. Malvo, who was 17 during a shooting spree that terrorized the Washington, D.C. area in fall 2002, is now serving life sentences for two of the 10 sniper shootings. Prince William County, Virginia, Commonwealth's Attorney Paul Ebert said it "doesn't make sense" to try Malvo for the death of Dean Harold Meyers now that the Supreme Court has ruled that people cannot be executed... CNN.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1353917/posts#comment Wed, 2 Mar 2005 04:10:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1353907/posts Today: March 01, 2005 at 19:43:10 PST Teen Sniper No Longer Faces Death Penalty By MATTHEW BARAKAT ASSOCIATED PRESS McLEAN, Va. (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court ruling Tuesday barring the execution of juvenile killers means Lee Boyd Malvo can no longer face the death penalty for his role in the 2002 Washington sniper case or other slayings around the country. Malvo, who was 17 at the time of the shootings, has already been convicted and sentenced to life in prison without parole for two of the murders. Prosecutors had planned to try him in other jurisdictions in hopes of... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1353907/posts#comment Wed, 2 Mar 2005 03:47:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1268117/posts RICHMOND, VA. - John Allen Muhammad's lawyers argued before the state Supreme Court on Tuesday that the convicted sniper cannot be sentenced to death under a Virginia law because he did not pull the trigger in the October 2002 killing spree. Muhammad was sentenced to die after being convicted of two counts of capital murder last year in the shooting of Dean Harold Meyers near Manassas. Prosecutors had argued Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo formed a sniper team and were thus equally culpable — even though Malvo said he pulled the trigger. Defense lawyer Peter Greenspun contended that Virginia law... Associated Press via Houston Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1268117/posts#comment Wed, 3 Nov 2004 09:15:37 GMT