Good riddance. I think he let the door hit him on the way out. Note Time of Death–9:11

Mastermind of Washington area sniper attacks executed

John Allen Muhammad was executed on Tuesday for masterminding and carrying out with his teenage accomplice the 2002 sniper shootings that killed 10 people and terrified the Washington, D.C. region a year after the September 11 and the deadly anthrax attacks.

The 48-year-old Muhammad was put to death by lethal injection at the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Virginia, said Virginia Department of Corrections spokesman Larry Traylor.

“Death was pronounced at 9:11 pm. There were no complications. Mr. Muhammad was asked if he wished to make a last statement. He did not acknowledge us or make any statement whatsoever,” Traylor told reporters.

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  1. lord-ruler says:

    I feel that the guy definately deserved the death penalty. I do not take satisfaction in it though.
    I remember watching the O.J trial and the reaction that Ron Goldman had. He was being overcome by hate. I do not blame him at all but he was really letting his anger get the best of him. There are some religious leaders who say that we should automatically forgive these people who have wrought terrible pain in the lives of others. Ron Goldman is the only person who is ultimately authorized to “forgive” O.J. We as a collective society should refrain from giving our forgiveness because it only hurts the person who was “sinned” against even more.

    Dennis Prager wrote in the wall Street Journal the following:

    “Though I am a Jew, I believe that a vibrant Christianity is essential if America’s moral decline is to be reversed and that despite theological differences, there is indeed a Judeo-Christian value system that has served as the bedrock of American civilization. For these reasons I am appalled and frightened by this feel-good doctrine of automatic forgiveness.

    This doctrine undermines the moral foundations of American civilization because it advances the amoral notion that no matter how much you hurt other people, millions of your fellow citizens will immediately forgive you. This doctrine destroys Christianity’s central moral tenets about forgiveness – that forgiveness, even by God, is contingent on the sinner repenting, and that it can only be given to the sinner by the one against whom he sinned.”

    I agree with Dennis but there are some circumstances when forgiveness is appropriate. The following story was quoted by one of the leaders of my church and I will always remember it.

    Deseret Morning News, written by Jay Evensen.

    “How would you feel toward a teenager who decided to toss a 20-pound frozen turkey from a speeding car headlong into the windshield of the car you were driving? How would you feel after enduring six hours of surgery using metal plates and other hardware to piece your face together, and after learning you still face years of therapy before returning to normal—and that you ought to feel lucky you didn’t die or suffer permanent brain damage?

    “And how would you feel after learning that your assailant and his buddies had the turkey in the first place because they had stolen a credit card and gone on a senseless shopping spree, just for kicks? …

    “This is the kind of hideous crime that propels politicians to office on promises of getting tough on crime. It’s the kind of thing that prompts legislators to climb all over each other in a struggle to be the first to introduce a bill that would add enhanced penalties for the use of frozen fowl in the commission of a crime.

    “The New York Times quoted the district attorney as saying this is the sort of crime for which victims feel no punishment is harsh enough. ‘Death doesn’t even satisfy them,’ he said.

    “Which is what makes what really happened so unusual. The victim, Victoria Ruvolo, a 44-year-old former manager of a collections agency, was more interested in salvaging the life of her 19-year-old assailant, Ryan Cushing, than in exacting any sort of revenge. She pestered prosecutors for information about him, his life, how he was raised, etc. Then she insisted on offering him a plea deal. Cushing could serve six months in the county jail and be on probation for 5 years if he pleaded guilty to second-degree assault.

    “Had he been convicted of first-degree assault—the charge most fitting for the crime—he could have served 25 years in prison, finally thrown back into society as a middle-aged man with no skills or prospects.

    “But this is only half the story. The rest of it, what happened the day this all played out in court, is the truly remarkable part.

    “According to an account in the New York Post, Cushing carefully and tentatively made his way to where Ruvolo sat in the courtroom and tearfully whispered an apology. ‘I’m so sorry for what I did to you.’

    “Ruvolo then stood, and the victim and her assailant embraced, weeping. She stroked his head and patted his back as he sobbed, and witnesses, including a Times reporter, heard her say, ‘It’s OK. I just want you to make your life the best it can be.’ According to accounts, hardened prosecutors, and even reporters, were choking back tears” (“Forgiveness Has Power to Change Future,” Deseret Morning News, Aug. 21, 2005, p. AA3).

    • CO2aintpoison says:

      IMHO, these three stories are lightyears apart in what caused the persons to commit the crimes. I don’t think it is our place as individuals to blame someone (or not) for hating an assailant OR to render judgement on a person for forgiving an assailant. That is up to them, how they deal with pain, where they are in their relationship with whatever God they feel is there’s, and, likely many other issues. If we are not directly involved or affected, it is what it is and we have no standing to say one way or another.

      Good for Victoria – I don’t know that I could’ve reacted that way. Hopefully, Ryan will take that lesson and apply it through his life and redeem himself. God gets to make that choice in the end.

      I don’t know how many of you live in the affected area which was tormented by Malvo and his side-kick, but as a single mom it was hell on earth every day until those em-efrs were caught. Going to get gas or going to the Home Depot were my two secondary biggest fears – second only to dropping off my 4th grade son at school which was surrounded by woods and situated right next to Interstate 70 – a nice, wide, big-ass highway.

      I remember taking him to school during those weeks. I would pull up to the front door of the school which placed the vehicle between the building and the woods, then I would get out and have my son walk in front of me so I would be between the vehicle and him figuring if there was a shot and it went through the vehicle it would get me and not him.

      For those of you who don’t live in the vacinity where these things were occuring, but only watching it from afar on the news, let me tell you it was a game changer. All of us peering at all white panel vans as we drove to work or drove wherever and they weren’t even in a damn van. When I heard they caught them at a rest area not 5 miles from my house and kid’s school I was sick to my stomach.

      Good riddance indeed and enjoy HELL. While you’re down there….ask those hi-jackers how the whole “70 virgins” thing is working out for ’em.

      • CO2aintpoison says:

        Thank you Tammy…yes, Malvo is still a blight on this planet. Muhammed was the one who went to hell Tuesday night. Thank you for the correction. All these freaks running around…it’s hard to keep them straight. Plus, don’t they all carry the name Muhammed somewhere on their birth certificate or “adopted name”? Geez louise.

    • intheknow says:

      I do get satisfaction in this execution. I do agree with you though that forgiveness has it’s place.

  2. vickisoup says:

    Death pronounced at 9:11; how fitting, indeed. One less deviant cretin we have to support with 3 hots & a cot.

  3. ladykrystyna says:

    Good riddance to bad rubbish! He has now met his Maker and has been judged and sent to Hell.

    Now, let’s work on getting the same for Hasan.

  4. intheknow says:

    What a shame it took 7 years to put this man to death. He was evil. If ever the death penalty should be used, it would be on this piece of garbage. Good riddance is right.

    • Tony in LV says:

      He sure was a piece of garbage and deserved the death penalty.
      I googled “average time death row”:
      Texas 10.26 years
      Florida 12.5 years
      Alabama 23 years
      Overall US average is 14 years.
      J.A. Muhammad probably requested that his appeals be stopped so he could get “it” quicker.
      I wish he had done it sooner.

  5. MRFIXIT says:

    Don’t worry about Lee Malvo. According to Obama Care, his treatment is dependent on how many “quality years” of life he has remaining. So, if he gets the sniffles, they should give him a pill and let him punch out. How can anyone argue that a man incarcerated for life has any quality years of life ahead of him?

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