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• Fort Hood Shooting Suspect Unlikely to Get Death Penalty

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  Crimes that occur on military bases are usually heard in the military justice system. But while that may sound harsher than a civilian court, the sentences usually turn out to be more lenient. The result is that Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist who allegedly gunned down 13 people at the military base in Texas ...
  6 hours ago

• Iran executes Kurdish activist

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Ehsan Fattahian, charged with being an enemy of God, had admitted membership of a banned opposition group Iran has reportedly executed a Kurdish political activist charged with being an "enemy of God", ignoring pleas from international human rights groups for his death sentence to be revoked. Ehsan Fattahian, 27, ...
  7 hours ago

• Death row in Texas not as cushy as California

  
  CRIME — Authority: 594
  A California defendant recently made headlines by asking for a death sentence because conditions on death row are better than in the rest of that states prisons and because the chances of actually being executed in California are slim. According to this story from the LA Times , Californias condemned have larger ...
  8 hours ago

• Iran Executes Kurdish Activist

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  Iran hung a Kurdish activist, Ehsan Fattahian, on Wednesday, who had been accused of “armed struggle against the regime.”
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• John Allen Muhammad Executed

  
  Kreuzer's Korner — Authority: 513
  John Allen Muhammad was executed Tuesday evening as relatives of the victims watched. Muhammad was convicted for the murder spree that killed ten and terrorized the Washington, D.C. for three weeks back in October of 2002. From the Associated Press : The 48-year-old Muhammad looked calm and stoic, but was ...
  9 hours ago

• Execution of Washington sniper was a ghoulish spectacle

  
  The Wild Frontier — Authority: 120
  WASHINGTON’S sniper killer, John Allen Muhammad, has been executed.He was strapped into a gurney in a Virginia prison and injected with a deadly cocktail of three deadly drugs.As he died, relatives of his victims looked on, presumably to finally feel that most powerful of emotions, vengeance.Muhammad and an ...
  11 hours ago

• The Haymarket Martyrs

  
  Wilson's Blogmanac — Authority: 134
  1887 Chicago, USA: The Haymarket Martyrs – August Spies , Albert Parsons , Adolph Fischer and George Engel – were hanged for "inciting" the Haymarket riot , at which they had not been present. The execution was protested in many countries worldwide, and in Australia large commemorative meetings were held for ...
  16 hours ago

• John Allen Mohammad’s sentence completed

  
  Citizens Against Pro-Obama Media Bias — Authority: 532
  November 10, 2009DC Sniper John Allen Mohammad is dead via lethal injection.CNN: There were no complications; Mr. Mohammad was asked if he wished to make a last statement. He did not acknowledge this or make a last statement whatsoever.The final act of selfishness.Through the course of three weeks in October 2002, ...
  17 hours ago

• Muhammad executed: rejoice!

  
  Blaney's Blarney — Authority: 517
  Twisted psychopath (and, I was shocked to learn, follower of the "religion of peace"), John Allen Muhammad, was executed yesterday for the 2002 Washington DC sniper attacks in which he killed 10 people along with an accomplice. Good. Unfortunately this member of Louis Farrakhans extreme black nationalist cult, the ...
  17 hours ago

• Washington sniper put to death

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Governor denies clemency to John Allen Muhammad who terrorised Washington area with shooting spree in 2002 The man who terrorised Washington and its suburbs for three weeks with sniper killings of ordinary people going about their daily lives was executed in Virginia last night as the families of his victims looked ...
  20 hours ago

• John Allen Muhammad Executed

  
  Famecrawler — Authority: 159
  John Allen Muhammad, the Beltway Sniper, was executed tonight.  Muhammed, who was born John Allen Williams, was killed by lethal injection at the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Virginia. Muhammad killed at least ten people in 2002 with the help of then 17-year-old Lee Boyd Malvo.  The younger man ...
  21 hours ago

• John Allen Muhammad…

  
  THE BLARG — Authority: 429
  …better known as the D.C. sniper who terrorized Washington and surrounding areas in October 2002, was executed two hours ago by lethal injection. Good riddance. Malvo should be next, -Shady
  22 hours ago

• Texas & Virginia Executions

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 511
  Texas and Virginia both carried out executions tonight.  Shortly after 6:00 pm in Huntsville, Texas executed Yosvanis Valle.  It was the states 21st execution of 2009; Texas 444th executionsince 1982.  Texas has far and away the most active death chamber inAmerica, accounting for more than 37% of the nations post- ...
  22 hours ago

• Make It A Rusty Needle

  
  Signal 94 — Authority: 469
  John Allen Muhammad will die tonight at 2100 hrs from lethal injection. The USSC has denied his appeal and Tim Kaine, the Governor of Virginia, has refused to set aside the death sentence. It will be SRO in the witness room as so many of the next of kin have requested to be present. Muhammad and his accomplice, Lee ...
  1 day ago

• WaPo Sees Glimpses of Humanity in Beltway Sniper

  
  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Authority: 831
  The Washington Post apparently has a soft spot for serial killers. John Allen Muhammad, the infamous Beltway Sniper, is set to die by lethal injection tonight.  After being found guilty of capital murder by a jury of his peers, Muhammad was sentenced to death.  The Washington Post, however, sees the “humanity ...
  1 day ago

• Dave Mann on Todays Capitol Events

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 511
  Dave Mann covered todays Senate Criminal Justice Committee meeting and the Rodney Ellis, Barry Scheck news conference that followed.  Hes posted, " The Willingham Hearing ," at his Texas Observer blog. Mann has written an impressive series of articles for the Observer uncovering other flawed Texas arson cases, noted ...
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• Archived Video of Senate Hearing & Ellis, Scheck News Conference Available

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 511
  Streaming video of this mornings Texas Senate Criminal Justice hearing on the Forensic Science Commission has been posted to the Archived Video section of the Senate website, here . Following the hearing, Senator Rodney Ellis held a news conference with Innocence Project Co-Director Barry Scheck.  Its also ...
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• Virginia Governor Will Not Stay Sniper Execution

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  Gov. Tim Kaine said Tuesday that he would not stay tonight’s scheduled execution of John Allen Muhammad.
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• DC sniper case: John Allen Muhammad to be put to death tonight

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Governor denies clemency for man who terrorised the Washington DC area during a shooting spree in 2002 Virginias governor denied clemency today for sniper John Allen Muhammad, clearing the way for him to be executed for the attacks that terrorised Americas capital region for three weeks in 2002. Muhammad is set to ...
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• A killer will be executed today in Virginia – Christianity vs. Islam and Humanism

  
  No Apologies — Authority: 146
  By Tim Bloedow A killer is scheduled to be executed in Virginia today. The first reason God gave for authorizing execution is rooted in human nature – establishing it as a fundamental “natural law” principle, if you will – Genesis 9:6: “Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for ...
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