Execution in less than half an hour

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In less than half an hour (barring an unlikely stay by the governor) John Allen Muhammad, better known as the D.C. or the Beltway Sniper, will be executed by lethal injection for the random murders of 10 people in Virginia, Maryland and D.C. In all, he and his accomplice, shot 16 innocent people who were going about the business of living their lives...a woman sitting on a bench outside of a restaurant, a taxi driver filling his tank at a gas station, someone in the parking lot of a store, a bus driver standing by his bus, a man crossing the street, a woman standing next to her car...and more. For 2 months the people who lived in the greater Metro area lived in constant fear of a bullet coming out of nowhere because no one ever saw anything. When Muhammad and his accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, were finally captured Attorney General John Ashcroft had a decision to make. Should he send them to be tried in Maryland, the state they were in when their killing spree ended, but a state where the death penalty is on hold, or send them to Virginia where 3 of the murders took place and where justice is swift? Fortunately, he chose Virginia and now, tonight, the families of the innocents who were killed and wounded as well as the people who lived through this nightmare will see the end of this terrible story. Goodbye John Allen Muhammad. May you forever rot in hell.