Muhammad Put to Death
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Updated: 10:16 AM Nov 11, 2009
Muhammad Put to Death
JARRATT, Va. (AP)
John Allen Muhammad has been executed for sniper attacks that killed ten people around Washington, D.C. during a three-week spree.
Posted: 9:21 PM Nov 10, 2009
Reporter: DENA POTTER - Associated Press Writer
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The mastermind of the 2002 sniper attacks that killed ten 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 the entire time.

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Posted by: Donna Location: Timberville on Nov 10, 2009 at 09:51 PM

Although I do not believe in the death penalty, I was not sorry to hear that this monster had been put to death. He chose to kill, he deserved what he got. Those he murdered had no choice.
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