DC sniper asks Supreme Court to block execution
 

he has rights :disgust next tuesday is his execution if he doesnt win

WASHINGTON — Attorneys for John Allen Muhammad, mastermind of the 2002 sniper attacks in the Washington, D.C., area that left 10 dead, asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to stop his execution.

The 48-year-old Muhammad is scheduled to die by injection on Nov. 10 at a Virginia prison. In court papers, his attorneys say the execution should be put off while the court considers whether his trial lawyer was ineffective.

Muhammad was convicted of killing Dean Harold Meyers at a Manassas, Va., gas station during a three-week spree in October 2002 that spanned Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia.

Muhammad and his teenage accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, were also suspected of fatal shootings in other states, including Louisiana and Alabama. Malvo is serving a life sentence.

Muhammad's lawyers also have asked Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine for clemency, saying Muhammad is mentally ill and should not be executed.

In a 40-minute video to Kaine last month, attorneys, mental health experts and witnesses describe Muhammad's illness. Muhammad's attorneys claim he has brain damage, brain dysfunction and neurological deficits, as well as psychotic and delusional behavior, exacerbated by the Gulf War Syndrome he suffered as a sergeant in the first Iraq war.

They also submitted an interview with a juror who said that she would not have sentenced Muhammad to death if she had known of his severe mental illness.

The Supreme Court has banned executing the insane or the mentally disabled, measured by an IQ less than 70, established by the age of 18, and the lack of basic adaptive skills.

Kaine has said he knows of no reason he would commute Muhammad's sentence to life in prison, but that he would review the request. As a Roman Catholic he is opposed to the death penalty, but as governor he has allowed nine executions to take place and commuted one sentence — a man who he said was too mentally ill to be executed.

Kaine usually waits for a condemned inmate to exhaust all appeals before acting on a clemency request. The court could act anytime before the scheduled execution.

Damn, already up for execution? They work fast out there.

"Gulf War Syndrome he suffered as a sergeant in the first Iraq war" - sounds serious.

No kidding. Was he homesick or something?

I am sure it is just yet another request like always. Doubt it will get stopped. 70 IQ is about borderline for execution in most states that allow it. I do not have much issue with executing even the retarded or mentally ill if need be. Assuming they can not be studied, probed, and generally dissected and learned from.

I am very pro death penalty yet I am anti death penalty in many cases, just because there is just to high of a chance of them getting shit wrong - especially when race comes into play. I really do not even accept a 1% margin of error when it comes to such cases. After that I fucking hate the ways we ways peoples bodies. If we are to kill people and especially allow the government to do it, they damn well should be harvesting every usable piece of flesh from that body as possible.

fuck it kill him. I was by that gas station yesterday

capitol punishment is barbaric and should stop...life in prison with no chance of parole if is worse IMO

depends really.

If someone took a loved one's life from you, you might feel differently. :2 cents:

It costs how much a day to house a prisoner? and pay people to babysit them... and healthcare for them.... fuck it just shoot them I can get box of 100 bullets for under 15 bucks

execute him.

mastermind? pfft.

Legal execution is retarded. The guy suffers more when he's alive and the government shouldn't have the right to take your life away. Leave him to the dogs, some of the victims family members could pay someone in jail to rape his ass into oblivion.

I would be against death penalty if it WASNT for the extremely high cost that is passed to the tax payers to jail someone for many years or life. So you kill someone, now not only do you never have to work another day in your life and still have "humane" accomodations but someone else gets to pay for all that too.
The prison system needs a major revamp and a new way of dealing with criminals. The fiscal cost to the taxpayers is unacceptable, IMO.

From what I've heard it isn't exactly cheap to execute them either. What they need to do is fix the prison system so they can actually make some decent profit from it (or at least minimalize the costs). Build a fucking factory and let them work in it. Helps their macho status too.

The US probably has one of the worst penal systems in the world. Jails are a freakin' joke. I know a lot of people who would rather be in jail than not. I mean, free room and board, free cable, free... damn near everything.

I say an eye for an eye. Enough of these bullshit excuses. PTSD, GWS and the like are just cop outs for ignorant retards who got caught fucking up.

We get things done here in va :)

unless it involves 66, 495 or the Metro

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I've read that it costs as much to execute with all the legal requirements that go along with it as it does to house them for life. If someone killed my kid, I would rather them rot in prison than to receive a merciful death.

When it is 100% certain that someone is the murderer, they should be executed immedately after being found guilty.

Professional snipers should relase him into the wild and hunt him like an animal.

For what, .22? LOL 9mm and 40 cal are quite expensive around here. Box of 50 runs about 15 bucks :(

new reality show "karma" :)

It might suprise you that even Amnesty International supports capital punishment in principle.
The only reason they don't support its use is because the cost of making a mistake is too high - ie, killing someone innocent.

Lets send him to a better place where there's no pain, no more suffering. Where he can finally rest in peace.

Sounds fucked up to me, but I'm not in charge of this rodeo.