DC sniper Muhammad executed for 2002 attacks

better question why isn't malvo being executed as well?

He was seventeen at the time... the Supreme Court ruled that he was ineligible for the death penalty

this is america, i have heard of 16 year old's being executed. anyways he isn't anymore...kill him.

Where and when...in America. I don't believe a sixteen year has been executed. At least in my lifetime, so if you could provide a link, I would definitely appreciate it.

id say texas they love executions...walmart of executions but im trying to find the link.

It could be, it's just that I can't remember ever hearing about a 16year-old because they just lowered the age for trying juveniles as adults, roughly 15 years ago.

Early to mid 1900s I read somewhere. One was in 1912 (or maybe it was 1921), a 15 year old. There was also a 16 year old executed at some point, but, it was more than 50 years I think. I'll have to try and locate what I read.

Hell Yes! Pronounced dead at 9:11 pm, how apt! All this on the Marines Corps Birthday! Now I have two reasons to celebrate.

I hope we can send his friend, Nidal Malik Hasan to join him real soon!

Wow, my celebration beer tastes even better! Semper Fi.

and as an aside...the Mission of the Marine Corps Rifle Squad:

"To locate, close with, and destroy the enemy by fire and maneuver, or repel the enemies assault with fire and close-combat!

Damn, it took least than seven years to execute him, I wonder why it takes more than ten years to execute others? I think they took him out faster because his name is Muhammad.

Try it was impossible for him to dispute his guilt.

Now this mass-killer joins George Tiller in hell.

How about we keep this to Muhammad and his crimes and NOT bring in abortion.

We need to execute all death row now !!! our countrys system is a complete joke and failure. No wonder there is no fear of crimes and murders our system is a joke just ask any law official . All prisioners that arn't on death row should be put to hard labor doing somthing to save the good tax payers money in this country. These SCUM bags of the earth shouln't have any rights !!! What a FREAKING JOKE "WE THE PEOPLE" We the IDIOTS !! We are paying BILLIONS of dollars for SCUM Oh YA they get H1N1 we are left to DIE !! What a FREAKING Law of the land

Prison in itself is a complete waste of money and life. So we sentence some person to life and then pay a million dollars just to keep him behind bars for life. One wants the death penalty then as why in the world keep someone alive when they cannot live? We could at least put them to work doing something to benefit society. There is prison/death sentence as a deterrent to crime and then there are the social conditions that produced a killer and someone we cannot allow out in society for they will harm someone.

If from preschool on we invested the time and money in every child so that child's potential and talents were developed and appreciated, we would likely soon have few prisoners to pay to keep alive or kill. The first step toward eliminating the prison situation is to nip it in the bud.

nah nah nah nah, nah nah nah nah, hey hey hey.....

Good Riddance I hate the fact he didn't get executed once he was found guilty on all charges. The justice system needs to be fixed we are wasting tons of cash to keep and house this sicko. 7 years is way to long.

tell that to texas, they love executing the mentally retarded

Guilty is guilty. If the crime is so hanus and there is overwhelming evidence or admission, why not?

He is not worth the death penalty debate.

Guilty is guilty.

Guilty is guilty except when the people are wrong about it.

Then guilty is an innocent man put to death.

Then the people have collectively committed the sins of Wrath and Pride.

Oh brother......... Wack him already....

Enjoy your vengeance. There is no celebration in my mind or soul here. I don't feel safer today than I did yesterday and no one that got murdered by this man came back to life as a result of his execution. I don't hang with Christian dogma but I am not thinking that Jesus would put a needle into this guy's arm. Do you?

Well maybe someone will now think twice before carrying out a murder, then again they may not. But fear is something important.

And I wouldn't use the bible or any biblical figure as a reference for peace, considering how many people died in it, oddly many of them from execution.

Thinking Aloud,

Fear is a good motivator for behavior. Lets go with that. Do you suggest that at all levels? I mean do you kids pick up their rooms out of fear for not doing it? If that doesn't work, maybe talking to them about the benefits of not living in a pig's sty would help. Dunno. Or maybe we go with rationality while the kids are young and switch to vengeneance when they become adults. Tough issue. Christ, killing someone is as simple as it is made out to be. I mean, I was in North Virginia when this was going on, I was pretty pissed off that I felt that I needed to zig-zag in parking lots. I'd have been extremely happy if a law enforcement offical had shot him to prevent the killing of an innocent person.

The guy is total douche but the principle of this is, to me, state-sponsored killing is bad thing. The company that the US keeps in terms of capital punishments is pretty weird: China, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, and so on. Anybody want to enjoy the security afforded there because of their use of capital punishment? Surely these are nice places to visit because people think twice about murder.

Yeah, it is pretty much a longshot changing anyone's mind about capital punishment based on this case where sympathy is understandably hard to come by. Just wonder if the celebration should be toned down a bit.

Enjoy your vengeance. There is no celebration in my mind or soul here. I don't feel safer today than I did yesterday and no one that got murdered by this man came back to life as a result of his execution. I don't hang with Christian dogma but I am not thinking that Jesus would put a needle into this guy's arm. Do you?

I dont think Jesus would be taking shots at people either. If at least one member of the victims family wanted to see him die in the state's hands ,then so be it.

I dont think Jesus would be taking shots at people either.

Jesus himself was wrongfully executed. That's one reason to suspect that Jesus would not be a fan of the death penalty. Jesus was also big on forgiveness, redemption and asking people to take a good look at themselves before they cast the first stone.

There is no part of me that mourns this guys death. Like I already said, if anyone deserved the death penalty, this guy did. The problem is that once you rationalize executing one man, no matter how bad he was, you are walking down the path that ultimately accepts executing an occasional innocent man as the price we must pay in order to maintain law and order.

But it's not true. We can maintain law and order without executing people. We don't need to execute people to protect ourselves. We have the ability to incarcerate people, for the remainder of their lives if necessary.

The real reason we execute people is to satisfy some (probably unhealthy) psychological needs.

Three Cents,

Do you have children? Neither do I, but I have several nieces and nephews. They don't clean their rooms out of wanting cleanliness, but instead because they don't want to be grounded or loose their desert(or in one case have to visit me, which I thought was funny). They fear punishment. The same principle applies to adults; we don't speed because we don't want a ticket, we don't litter because we don't want to listen to a boring sermon, and of course we don't murder people because we fear that we may lose our lives in the process. It has long been held that the state should be able to punish those that commit the most heinous crimes with death(though in England suicide was a capital offense, which I never figured out). Its funny that you mention Saudi Arabia, a country with an extremely low crime rate. Not just murder but robbery, people are apparently attached to their hands. It may seem barbaric but when confronted with evil sometimes you must be evil in turn.

Gulliver, The number of innocent people executed by the United States justice system is actually very small, just like the number of wrongly convicted is very small. In either case 12 of their fellow citizens felt that their crimes warranted the ultimate punishment. It is not the will of the government to kill, it is an extension of the will of the people that they should die for their crimes. And as to life imprisonment. It really doesn't work. In prison you receive three square meals a day, are not required to work, get free medical care, easy access to drugs, and a heated and cooled environment to live in. Prison is no punishment it is confinement, not deterrence. To deprive a convicted person of their life is punishment.

I will also add here that thanks to prison overcrowding California is required to release 40,000 prisoners least they be unreasonably cruel to prisoners.

Also in my haste to answer you both I forgot to add something. That in combat enemy snipers rarely surrender. Oh and not because they don't try either.

Why all the name calling. The guy is dead for the murders he committed. Hell awaits him, for the hell he dumped on innocent people during his reign of terror. Justice has been served.

Because it makes us feel better and doesn't hurt anyone inocent. Nowbe gone before we drop a house on you too..... ding dong the wicked dick is dead.....

I know I am.

;-)

R. Donald Snyder

You and I have crossed political swords in the past, but...

The Law- and the rest of the left-wing scum you support. ?

Easy there hater! I am an anti-religion zealot, but I have to say, wishing people go to hell (although imaginary) is just too much.

Unless you want to talk about John Allen Mohammed [a new arrival, I hope and pray (in a completely non-religious way)] or Nidal Malik Hasan (someone I pray lives, so we can put that bastard down at OUR convenience, and according to OUR laws)

Otherwise, lay-off the...

Yeah, roasting in hell along with George Tiller and the rest of the left-wing scum you support.

...talk. That's just over the top in American Politics. Hope they fail, but don't hope they burn in hell. That's crass.

The Law

Even pretending to is crass and wrong.

Point well taken

You're Noble, good for you! Cheers!

I agree. Bravo Mike and The Law.

Respectfully to RDS and Mike,

I feel like I am one out of a thousand, but I still have got to say, even though this guy was dangerous, horrible and hard to find a reason to value, I don't celebrate state sponsored killing.

When I say "respectfully" to you, I really do mean that.

ThreeCents

I don't celebrate state sponsored killing.

Well, I have no problem with that, and I'll say that you probably have a better moral compass than I do. When it comes to violent crime, I have a hard-line zero tolerance philosophy. I don't think of capital punishment as vengeance or as a deterrent, I think of it as eradication of the worst among us, and in that vein, I am all for it.

But I appreciate that fact that there are people like you to balance-out people like me. Maybe you are one in a thousand, but yours is a morally superior position.

Ok, Mike. I like that. Not sure about the morally superior part but. We are being honest here and that says a lot regardless of position.

Just a little.

Such is why I stated he was taken out faster because his name is Muhammad.

I am opposed to the death penalty, though I understand why some love ones left behind, would like to see those who have committed murder against their love ones executed. It is just that I was wondering why it took least than seven years, when many more murderers including mass murderers took almost two decades?

Efficiency. Finally, we're getting better at it.

Its more proof that we need a newer class of capitol murder cases. One to proove your innocents and the other to try and convince us not to kill you sorry butt, cause a lot of people saw you do it.

The death penalty was later ruled out for Malvo because the U.S. Supreme Court barred the execution of juveniles, who was 17 during the killing spree.

What date was that ruling because I'm certain it was after Malvo's first trial where he was sentenced to life by jury.

Come to think of it, that SC ruling had to be recent, bc Texas executed juvy offenders in this decade.

Like I stated, it may have been executions of juvenile offenders, I just cannot find any links to any...

I found a link about juvenile executions throughout the world look where we are at...

http://www.amnesty.org/en/death-penalty/executions-of-child-offenders-since-1990

I mean, come on, there isn't a human alive who isn't afraid of death..it is a natural reaction.

Not necessarily. I have zero fear of death, though I hope it will not be painful.

Ive conditioned myself to think of it as no more traumatic than going through a walk-in closet, and changing clothes on my way to somewhere else. No fear here either.

hmmm...maybe. I just don't believe at the moment it happens, if you are aware anyway, that there isn't a spark of fear if only for a moment. Death is the ultimate unknown.

Lynn3765

hmmm...maybe. I just don't believe at the moment it happens, if you are aware anyway, that there isn't a spark of fear if only for a moment. Death is the ultimate unknown.

Very Nice Writing! Well put!

(now you got me scared)

Death is the ultimate unknown.

I see death as the end. The ultimate peace, since once you are dead there is nothing but nothingness. No soul, no pain, no regrets, no memory, no sense of loss, just a bag of decaying cells without a consciousness. When your body dies, so do you and everything you ever thought of or felt. The synapses in your brain, the chemical and electrical reactions that make you, you, stop. After you die, there is nothing to fear, because there is nothing more.

R. Donald Snyder

Sounds peaceful!

That's how I see it. Peaceful oblivion.

I've had near death experience at least once, so I had the benefit of discovering the beauty and peace in it. Dont care if it's real, or as some would argue, "one last hallucination". It still makes it easier on the dead, to go.

Dont count on it, if it was done by the book! Ever have pentathol before surgery? nothing to it...

I was under the impression that lethal injections burned somewhat. Isn't that the crux of the arguments opposing their use?

Don't you worry your pretty little head piper....

.... it does burn but not for very long........he certainly won't feel it in the morning.

On the positive side it would shock me if he filed a lawsuit.

Negatively speaking.

er, sorry I can't resist. He had four children (five if you count his assertion that Malvo was his "son"). In this case though, I doubt his natural children will be a problem.

Sir. Thinkswaytomuch

"Karma's a @!$%#, isn't?"

Yes! Four Stars!

Tick, tick, tick, tock. A gallow, no hood and on primetime TV that should be his fate.

I wish it were that simple. His Cousin, the first chance he got, defended this Treasonous, Terrorist, Murderer by stating that he (the killer) had been taunted by his fellow Soldiers. This was an Officer, not someone likely to be taunted and not aware of how to resolve this issue.

This piece of trash went out of his way to make contact with Bin Ladin's group and worked diligently to be recruited. He acted as his heart dictated. As a Terrorist, as an enemy, as a murderer, as a opportunist, and as an infiltrator in the Army.

No mercy on his soul, ever.