WASHINGTON – Attorneys for sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammad plan to file an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court in an effort to stop next week's execution.

Muhammad is scheduled to die by lethal injection Nov. 10 at a Virginia prison.

Attorneys for the 48-year-old have said they planned to file the appeal Tuesday. They asked Gov. Timothy M. Kaine for clemency last month.

Muhammad is to be executed for the slaying of Dean Harold Meyers at a Manassas, Va., gas station during a three-week killing spree in October 2002 that left 10 dead in 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 in prison.

-AP



I have no problem with this

he is obviously guilty and killed a lot of innocent people and terrorized DC for a couple of weeks. Put him down

I'm sure this will make many very happy....

Wait...

I thought all serial killers were white...

This guy cannot have done what he's been so short sightedly and illegitimately accused of...

freakin' racists!

I hate the thought of the death penalty, but I'm glad others have the chutpah to carry it through. He needs to go. I hope this will not be repealed.

amen

maybe if you had the hutzphah to call hutzpah 'balls' you might not be dealing with this issue..

I'm all for rehabilitation but there are some things people do that surrender their right to breath air...

I'm all for rehabilitation but there are some things people do that surrender their right to breath air...

^agreed but when the penalties are made for a select few due to race, economics and social standing, then it leaves a bitter taste in my mouth. We can sit here and argue all day about what is and isn't just, but the bottom line is the death penalty and who it is given to is extremely biased....

ummmm this guy killed 17 people in cold blood

I don't think his execution is race based

Wow, I forgot all about that event, I remember watching about it on the news...Been years, about time they are going to do something about it.

It's about damn time!

Yay we rid the earth of one more cold blooded killer

He should be put down like the rabid animal he is.

ummmm this guy killed 17 people in cold blood

I don't think his execution is race based

^really, how many was Gotti responsible for, oh he was white and rich, you're missing the point., about my objections to the death penalty...I can't draw, or I would have made it plainer

Lethal injection. Personally, I think the gallows with a rope around the neck and the neck breaks and pants get messy. Now, that's an execution!

Why did it take so long?

wow, justice rolls around quick in virginia!

has he really exhausted all his appeals already?

seems like in cali, they sit on death row for decades, and only execute about one a year......

My thoughts exactly, why waste taxpayers dollars feeding that scum!

Katz, I like your idea too, haha I thought I was the only woman in these forums that felt that these criminals deserve very harsh punishments.

He was obviously a mind-controlled patsy.

I mean it was SOOO out in the open! The sheriff with his "duck in a noose" trigger word putting him harmlessly to sleep.

It was an underground government operation. ALL the witnesses described a white van. The patsy was found in a car. It was a blood ritual occult sacrifice. First few murders formed an upside-down cross.

Oh, my goodness, I DO love conspiracy theorists.

How in the world is this a conspiracy theory? He murdered people in cold blood now the bastard will die. Where's the conspiracy there? Thanks for the laugh

I was speaking of the poster above me. Thanks for the laugh back.