A long time coming and more than well deserved…
RICHMOND, Va. – Some ache for revenge, others simply for justice. There is frustration, too, and defiance.
For those wounded by the D.C. snipers and for the relatives of those killed, the emotions leading up to the execution of the mastermind behind the 2002 attacks vary as widely as those who found themselves in the cross hairs.
John Allen Muhammad, 48, is set to die by injection in a Virginia prison Nov. 10, seven years after he and his teenage accomplice terrorized the area in and around the nation’s capital for three weeks.
As far as I’m concerned they should skip the needle and go with the old “eye for an eye” routine. Have John Allen Muhammad wander around all day long in a field going about his business for days on end so he can live in fear like he made his victims and most of the greater metro DC area do. Then have the least qualified marksmen in the Virginia State Police Academy take up positions around the field, give all but one blanks, and tell them that they can fire at will… after two days. Let him sweat, then let him die like he made his victims die.
The death penalty using lethal injection by needle isn’t an effective deterrent, but the death penalty using my “let the punishment fit the crime” paradigm might be a more compelling argument for being nice to each other.
By the way, all snipers being executed in Virginia are in no way affiliated with The Sniper blog, The Sniper himself, or The Sniper brand adult diapers.
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I live really close to one of the places where this ratbastard piece of sh!t killed a guy. I was still on the left coast at the time, but my sis-in-law and her family were here and scared sh!tless.
I only wish someone could hide (like in the trunk of a car) where he could not see them, and he could just stand there waiting, never knowing when or from where, and suddenly administer his lethal potion…