John Allen Muhammad, better known as the DC Sniper, is scheduled to die by injection at a Virginia prison for the slaying of Dean Harold Meyers in 2002. The U.S. Supreme Court has has refused to block the execution.
John Allen Muhammad,48, carried out the 2002 Beltway sniper attacks, killing 10 people with partner, Lee Boyd Malvo. Drawings by Malvo describe the murders as part of a "jihad".
At Muhammad's trial, the prosecutor claimed that the rampage was part of a plot to kill his ex-wife and regain custody of his children, but the judge ruled that there was insufficient evidence to support this argument.
The DC, Maryland and Virginia sniper attacks took place during three weeks in October 2002. Ten people were killed and three others critically injured in various locations throughout the Washington Metropolitan Area and along Interstate 95 in Virginia.
The rampage was perpetrated by one man, John Allen Muhammad, and one minor, Lee Boyd Malvo. The killing spree apparently started the month before with murders and robbery in Louisiana and Alabama, which had resulted in three deaths.
Muhammad still has a clemency petition before Virginia Governor Timothy M. Kaine.
In attempt to get a stay on today's execution of John Allen Muhammad, his attorney, Jonathan Sheldon, stated, "Virginia will execute a severely mentally ill man who also suffered from Gulf War Syndrome the day before Veterans Day."
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