Sniper who terrorized US capital executed
Washington, Nov 11 (DPA) John Allen Muhammad, who masterminded the 2002 Washington sniper killings, was put to death by lethal injection late Tuesday, a Virginia state prison spokesman announced.
Muhammad and his 17-year-old accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, armed themselves with a sniper rifle and went about shooting people at random in Washington and the Virginia and Maryland suburbs. They shot at least 16 people – killing 10 – in October 2002.
Muhammad’s sentence of capital punishment was carried out at Greensville Correctional Centre in Jarratt, Virginia.
Malvo is serving a sentence of life without parole, after a jury refused to agree to his death.
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