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November 11, 2009

DC Sniper Executed by Lethal Injection
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The man known as the DC sniper has been executed for the October 2002
killings of ten people in DC, Virginia and Maryland. John Allen Muhammad
was killed by lethal injection Tuesday after Virginia Governor Timothy
Kaine denied a last-minute appeal for clemency. Larry Traylor of the
Virginia Department of Corrections announced Muhammad’s execution.

Larry Traylor: “The execution of John Allen Muhammad has been carried
out under the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Death was pronounced
at 9:11 p.m. There were no complications. Mr. Muhammad was asked if he
wished to make a last statement. He did not acknowledge this or make any
statement whatsoever.”

Defense attorneys had argued for sparing Muhammad’s life on grounds he
suffered mental illness worsened by the Gulf War syndrome he developed
while serving in the first US invasion of Iraq.



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