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Supreme Court Won’t Stop Execution Of D.C. Sniper
The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to stop the execution of Washington D.C. sniper John Allen Muhammad.
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RICHMOND, Va. (November 9, 2009)--The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to block the scheduled execution Tuesday of Washington, D.C. sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammad.
The Court did not comment Monday on the reason it refused to consider his appeal.
Muhammad is scheduled to die by injection at a Virginia prison for the slaying of Dean Harold Meyers at a gas station during a three-week spree in 2002 across Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C.
Muhammad and his teenage accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, were also suspected of fatal shootings in other states, including Louisiana, Alabama and Arizona.
Malvo is serving a life sentence.
Muhammad still has a clemency petition pending before Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine.
Muhammad's attorney, Jonathan Sheldon, said, "Virginia will execute a severely mentally ill man who also suffered from Gulf War Syndrome the day before Veterans Day."
