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DINWIDDIE -- The execution of John Muhammad is a step toward closure for relatives and friends of his victims, but might also serve as a warning to others, said former superintendent of Virginia State Police W. Gerald Massengill. It will definitely help those close to the victims, but also the many Virginians who lived in fear of being ambushed for three longs weeks," said Massengill, who resides in Dinwiddie County.
In an exhaustive, at times poetic 152-page opinion, the Court of Special Appeals Monday affirmed the Montgomery County murder convictions of D.C.-area sniper John Allen Muhammad. Muhammad, who waived his right to counsel and represented himself at trial, raised nine issues on appeal, each of which was knocked down by the intermediate appellate court, sometimes on multiple grounds.
On November 9, Muhammad's second wife, Mildred Muhammad, appeared on CNN's "Larry King Live" and was asked by the host if Muhammad was a different man after returning from the Gulf War. "He went from someone who was always happy, that knew what direction he was going in, and was focused, to a person that was totally confused, depressed all the time - didn't know how to get to where he wanted to be," she told King. King also asked about allegations that Muhammad had abused her. The couple divorced in 1999. Not physically, she said, "but verbally, mentally and psychologically," was Muhammad's answer to King, adding, that she believed that her former husband planned to kill her, using the other deaths as a cover. Muhammad, the mother of three children, has written a book that covers the ab...
JARRATT, Va. - John Allen Muhammad, the mastermind behind the sniper attacks that left 10 dead, was executed Tuesday night as relatives of the victims watched, reliving the killing spree that terrorized the Washington metro area for three weeks in October 2002. He looked calm and stoic, but was twitching and blinking as the injections began, defiant to the end, refusing to utter any final words. Victims' families sat behind glass to watch the execution, separated from the rest of the 27 witnesses.
RICHMOND, Va. - Some ache for revenge, others simply for justice. There is frustration, too, and defiance. For those wounded by the D.C. snipers and for the relatives of those killed, the emotions leading up to the execution of the mastermind behind the 2002 attacks vary as widely as those who found themselves in the cross hairs.
By Josh White and Maria Glod The Washington Post
WASHINGTON -- It's done now. A dark odyssey in 2002 that began with an unfathomable impulse to shoot strangers at random concluded for John Allen Muhammad as he lay strapped to a gurney in a rural Virginia prison.
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