I’ll never forget it. A demon was loose. He was shooting folks in Virginia, Maryland and DC. I was terrified. So was everyone else. His name John Allen Muhammad and he was the Maryland sniper. So evil that he took advantage of a young, impressionable teenager and had that teen trained to be a killing machine. Well, the killing machine is scheduled to die on November 10th.
Lawyers for convicted Beltway sniper John Allen Muhammad have asked the Supreme Court to block next week’s scheduled execution.
An appeal was filed Tuesday evening with the justices, but there was no indication when the court would rule. A clemency request has already been filed with Virginia Gov. Timothy Kaine’s office.Muhammad, 48, is scheduled to be executed November 10 for the murder of Dean Harold Meyers at a gas station in Manassas, Virginia. Muhammad recently transferred to death row at Greensville Correctional Center in rural southern Virginia.
Muhammad and teenage accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo terrorized the nation’s capital for three weeks in October 2002, responsible for the sniper-style killings of 10 people in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia, police believe. Three others were wounded by high-powered gunfire, said police.
One of John Muhammad’s biggest errors was in fancying himself God:
Police found a laptop on the pair when they were arrested that showed a “blueprint” for the shootings, placing them at locales where the crimes took place. Tarot cards were also left at some scenes, showing the figure of “Death,” with one including a handwritten message “Dear Policeman, I am God.”
The pair was arrested October 24, 2002, sleeping in their car at a Maryland rest stop.
Malvo eventually testified against his mentor and is serving life in prison.
The case is Muhammad v. Kelly (0907328).
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I know John Allen Muhhamad and his ex-wife Mildred. In another life time I was a member on the Nation of Islam and we went to mosque together. He ran a martial arts school and my two older sons attended for awhile. Lord knows what would have happened if it were one of my boys who he had taken under his wing. My middle son was a troubled child during this time and this is the type of child he befriended. I thank God that I broke away from that cult. Once you have the teachings of Jesus in you , they take root and nothing can quench the truth but the truth.
I pray for the families that were devastated by this man. I pray for Mildred and her children who will forever have to live with the fact that her husband hated her so much that he killed 10 people so it would look like she was just another victim when he killed her.