OT - "Beltway Sniper" to be executed at 9 p.m. ET tonight

[wilheim]

John Allen Muhammad, 48, is scheduled to be executed at 9 p.m. in Virginia. He says he's innocent.

Washington (CNN) -- Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine denied a last-minute clemency request Tuesday for John Allen Muhammad, the mastermind behind the Washington-area sniper attacks of 2002 that terrorized the nation's capital.


The denial leaves Muhammad, 48, scheduled to die at 9 p.m. Tuesday by lethal injection at a state prison near Jarratt, Virginia.


"It's a waiting game," Larry Traylor, director of communications for the Virginia Department of Corrections, told reporters standing in the rain outside the Greensville Correctional Center.


During three weeks in October 2002, Muhammad and accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo, then 17, killed 10 people and wounded three, while taunting police with written messages and phoned-in threats and demands.


"Having carefully reviewed the petition for clemency and judicial opinions regarding this case, I find no compelling reason to set aside the sentence that was recommended by the jury and then imposed and affirmed by the courts," Kaine said in a written statement.


"Accordingly, I decline to intervene."


Remainder of article at CNN.com

 

[OnWisconsin]

good riddance. it's a shame, how many people die every day because of scum like this

 

[2PLAYSMAX]

9:01^<<^9:02<><>

 

[ProPokerPlayer]

not a "beltway sniper" ...an islamic extremist who's only goal was to kill white people in the name of Allah....

 

[steaktartar]

his kid got life no parole i believe

 

[randyrohm]

Hope there is no last minute phone call.

 

[OnWisconsin]

his kid got life no parole i believe

yeah....he was a minor and they were able to try him with capital punishment, but the jury handed him a life sentence instead

 

[hosnatcher]

It seems like they aren't wasting any time executing this dude. He was convicted of all crimes in 2006 and being put to sleep in 2009? Usually death row inmates get 10-15 years to get the appeals process worked though and yada, yada, yada?

Can anybody else remember a high profile death row inmate getting executed in under 36 months?

 

[Bennyshoe]

he should have died the week after he was sentenced. No reason to let anyone on death row live years after they committed the crime.

 

[OnWisconsin]

i think he said "fuck it"....they were saying on the news that he had the choice of electrocution or lethal injection and he declined to choose

 

[2PLAYSMAX]

:howdy:done.

 

[OnWisconsin]

:howdy:done.

 

[KennyB]

Good Riddance. I will drink to that.

 

[hosnatcher]

he should have died the week after he was sentenced. No reason to let anyone on death row live years after they committed the crime.

Ideally it would be nice if our justice system worked a little more true and swift but it is a confidence game that is only being played out for amusement and not to deliver justice or correct injustice.

When a major crime is committed the police are more concerned about somebody taking the fall for the crime then they are at apprehending the right person. I myself believe if somebody high profile enough gets murdered and the detectives lack evidence or leads they have people in wait that will either fess up for the crime or have books on enough free murderers and life time criminals that they will just pin the crime on them and not lose a night sleep about sending the wrong person to prison or letting a guilty person remain free.

You know what's funny is the D/A can have enough evidence after evidence of somebody being guilty but it was obtained in the wrong manner it will never be presented in the court of law. The same goes for a defendants innocence. If the proper channels weren't followed to prove your innocence that shit never sees the court room either. In most cases the detectives, investigators and lawyers are tipped off when it comes to pursuing a conviction or letting a suspect go free. Those tips are obtained illegally from Eddie the drug dealing snitch or a potential witness that you blackmail into telling the truth. That stuff never sees the court of law but it points the investigating in the right direction to get the conviction or the case thrown out.

I do not trust our justice system it is a racket and a process that keeps millions of people employed and yet unemployed. If someone has to sit on ice in death row for ten years to make sure all channels have been followed to prove their guilt then so be it. You saw how many innocent people get released from prison when DNA was checked on a bunch of old cases.

Go rent "The Life Of David Gale" it dives into this type of shit.

 

[OnWisconsin]

the life of david gale was a good movie. but it was just a movie....

 

[hosnatcher]

the life of david gale was a good movie. but it was just a movie....

Movies are based on life. Life is never based on a movie.

 

[2PLAYSMAX]

Movies are based on life. Life is never based on a movie.

Except boys out in the suburbs gang banging because they watched BoyzNthe Hood.:think2:

 

[hosnatcher]

Except boys out in the suburbs gang banging because they watched BoyzNthe Hood.:think2:

They do the same shit in the burbs that they do in the ghetto except guns aren't involved. Everybody does drugs and alcohol, everybody commits crimes of theft, everybody picks on the weak, everybody protects their clique.

No matter where you live it is always about survival of the fittest.

 

[OnWisconsin]

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[2PLAYSMAX]

They do the same shit in the burbs that they do in the ghetto except guns aren't involved. Everybody does drugs and alcohol, everybody commits crimes of theft, everybody picks on the weak, everybody protects their clique.

No matter where you live it is always about survival of the fittest.

Shooting people over colors of their clothes ain't survival of the fittest. That's stupid. Drug dealing, stealing...that's survival. Gang bangin'...DUMB!