Execution Date For DC Sniper Mastermind

A Virginia judge has set a Nov. 10execution date for John Allen Muhammad, mastermind of the 2002sniper attacks in Washington, D.C.

By: Katie Hammond | WKRG-TV
Published: September 16, 2009

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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A Virginia judge has set a Nov. 10
execution date for John Allen Muhammad, mastermind of the 2002
sniper attacks in Washington, D.C.
The attorney general's office had requested Monday, Nov. 9 for
execution. But Muhammad's attorney Jonathan Sheldon says Prince
William County Circuit Judge Mary Grace O'Brien delayed it one day
in case of last-minute court action.
Muhammad was sentenced to death for the slaying of Dean Meyers,
one of 10 people shot to death during a 2002 rampage that
terrorized the mid-Atlantic region. Muhammad and teenage accomplice
Lee Boyd Malvo killed six people in Alabama and Louisiana before
moving on to Maryland, D.C. and Virginia.
Sheldon says Muhammad will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court and
ask the governor for clemency.

(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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