D.C. sniper Muhammad to get the needle
By: Scott McCabe
Examiner Staff Writer
October 28, 2009
John Allen Muhammad, the mastermind behind the D.C. sniper killings, will receive a lethal injection at his execution next month.
Death row inmates in Virginia can choose to die by the needle or the electric chair. Muhammad declined to pick one, so by default he will be killed by lethal injection, authorities said.
Muhammad is scheduled to be executed Nov. 10 for fatally shooting Dean Harold Meyers at a Manassas gas station. The three-week killing spree in October 2002 left 10 dead in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia.
Muhammad's lawyers have asked Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine for clemency and plan to file an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court. Muhammad's teenage accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, was sentenced to life in prison.
-- Scott McCabe
