DC Sniper Executed!
Victims’ family members feel short-changed after John Allen Muhammad’s death:
Justice fell short with the execution of Washington-area sniper John Allen Muhammad, one of his victims’ surviving family members said after witnessing his death by lethal injection.
According to Bossip.com, Muhammad died silently Tuesday night in a Virginia prison death chamber filled with lawyers, lawmen and his victims’ family members. After the execution, Steven Moore said he thought about Muhammad’s accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, who received a life sentence for their crimes.
“Well, myself, I wish Malvo was right there beside Muhammad,” said Moore, whose sister, FBI analyst Linda Franklin, was gunned down in Virginia. “They both committed the same crimes. No, I don’t feel any closure. I mean, it’s … it … nothing changes.” Muhammad was the mastermind behind the Washington-area sniper attacks of 2002, which left 10 dead and terrorized the nation’s capital. He was declared dead at 9:11 p.m. ET, said Larry Traylor, director of communications for the Virginia Department of Corrections.
Moore said he had no sympathy for Muhammad and was angered by what he said were sympathetic media reports about Muhammad’s children that had aired recently. “They’re talking about Muhammad’s children, but Linda left children behind, too,” Moore said. “She’s got a daughter, Katie, and a son, Thomas, that — Tommy just got back from his second tour in Iraq in the Army. They’re not going to see their Mom. So I don’t have any sympathy for his family or for his children.”
Bob Meyers, whose 53-year-old brother, Dean, was shot dead while pumping gas in Virginia, called Tuesday’s execution surreal. “Watching the life be sapped out of somebody intentionally was very different and an experience I’d never had,” he said on CNN’s “Larry King Live.” “I’d watched my mother die of natural causes, but that was very different.”
He said he might have attained some closure, “but I would say that pretty much was overcome just by the sadness that the whole situation generates in my heart. That he would get to the place where he did what he did, and that it had to come to this.” Meyers said he had forgiven Muhammad for two reasons: “One is that God calls for me to do that in the Bible and the second thing is related to that. If I don’t, it rots me from the inside out. It doesn’t really hurt John Muhammad or anybody that I have bitterness against.”
BY @JynxMillionaire
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Comment by galenhen on November 15, 2009 at 10:08pm - Drake brings up a good point.
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Comment by Gonzalo Arreola JR. on November 13, 2009 at 9:41am - He needed that the DC Sniper John Allen Muhammad good that they got rid of him
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Comment by MANNY FRE$H on November 13, 2009 at 5:10am -
it boggles my mind what would cause a human being to take such action .... like before anything takes place what sparks the brain to tell the body let me go out and start snipering innocent people life coulden't of been that bad i see ton's of homeless people in n.y. sleeping in freezing weather out side does drive them to go out and kill anyone .
p.s. can't wait to hear jay z response to 50 & seig'z
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Comment by MaMiiCaMBo on November 13, 2009 at 2:20am - Lethal injection? He got off too easy..shouldve sniper'd his ass.
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Comment by Josh on November 12, 2009 at 1:07pm - shoulda used petrol and a match.
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Comment by Drake on November 12, 2009 at 10:57am - Yeah, I was just pointing out that it's not always the more economical approach, despite what most people think. Now was it the best approach? Yeah, this time I agree with you that it was.....
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Comment by Jokes on You on November 12, 2009 at 10:11am - Well, he wasn't there for 25 years. It's been 8. I'd rather shell out the amount of money it takes to get the sucker out of this world, then have him like some kind of phone bill, yanno? lol
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Comment by Drake on November 12, 2009 at 9:39am
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In many cases, it actually costs MORE to put someone to death. For example, say the average lifer in prison spends 30 years there at roughly $20k/year to keep them there. That's $600k total.
Now a death row inmate spends 25 years in prison due to the numerous and drawn out appeals process, which runs an average of $200k by itself. So it cost $500k to keep them there for the 25 years, plus the $200k spent on appeals. That's $700k spent on putting someone to death versus $600k to house them.
My only point is that there is no guarantee that the death penalty costs less than life in prison, though in Muhammad's case it did.
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Comment by MONT@N@ FLY on November 12, 2009 at 7:59am - MAN THIS NI**A HAD PEOPLE TRIPPIN THEY SHOULD EXECUTE THE YOUNG DUDE TO CAUSE HE SHOT THE YOUNG GIRL AND MOST OF THE OTHER PEOPLE
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Comment by J.B-well on November 12, 2009 at 6:10am - I remember that tv movie wit Rock in it. Thought this dude was dead all ready.
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