Deseret News | D.C.-area sniper John Allen Muhammad executed

D.C.-area sniper John Allen Muhammad executed

Deseret News

Published: Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009 7:37 p.m. MST

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JARRATT, Va. — The mastermind of the 2002 sniper attacks that killed 10 in the Washington, D.C., region has been executed.

A prison spokesman says John Allen Muhammad died by injection at 9:11 p.m. Tuesday at Greensville Correctional Center.

Muhammad was executed for killing Dean Harold Meyers at a gas station during the spree that terrorized Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C., over a three-week period. His teenage accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, was sentenced to life in prison.

Prison spokesman Larry Traylor says Muhammad had no final words. He says he didn't hear him utter a word during the execution.

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This couldn't have come sooner.

Anonymous | Nov. 11, 2009 at 12:52 a.m.

So many emotions...so many lives were taken...who is correct...who is...

a mom | Nov. 11, 2009 at 12:25 a.m.

Justice.

Anonymous | Nov. 10, 2009 at 10:37 p.m.

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Dean Hoffmeyer, Associated Press

Abraham Bonowitz of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty rings a bell in protest outside Greenville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Va., just before the scheduled time of D.C. sniper John Muhammad's execution Tuesday.

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