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Updated: 6:25 PM Oct 23, 2009
Attorneys Say Sniper is Mentally Ill and Cannot be Executed
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) Convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad's attorneys are trying to convince Gov. Timothy Kaine that their client is too mentally ill to be executed.
Posted: 8:00 PM Oct 23, 2009 |
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Convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad's attorneys are trying to convince Gov. Timothy Kaine that their client is too mentally ill to be executed.
Muhammad's lawyers say they submitted a 40-minute compilation of interviews with attorneys, mental health experts and witnesses illustrating Muhammad's mental illness to Kaine Thursday. They did not file a written clemency petition.
The lawyers want Kaine to stop Muhammad's scheduled November 10 execution and commute his sentence to life in prison. The U.S. Supreme Court has banned executing the mentally ill.
Muhammad was sentenced to death for the October 2002 slaying of Dean Harold Meyers at a Manassas gas station. The shooting was one of a string of attacks that left ten people dead and three wounded in Virginia, Washington, D.C., and Maryland.
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Hmm, this jerk knew what he was doing when he was snipping other. I say FRY!!!!!!!!
That's BS!! Give him what he gave others.....!!
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