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Reaction to DC sniper's death
There were mixed reactions to the execution last night of the man who terrorized the Beltway area of DC, Virginia, and Maryland, John Allen Muhammed:
Justice fell short with the execution of Washington-area sniper John Allen Muhammad, one of his victims' survivors said after witnessing his death by lethal injection.
Muhammad died silently Tuesday night in a Virginia prison death chamber filled with lawyers, lawmen and his victims' survivors.
After the execution, Steven Moore said he thought about Muhammad's accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, who received a life sentence for their crimes.
"Well, myself, I wish Malvo was right there beside Muhammad," said Moore, whose sister, FBI analyst Linda Franklin, was gunned down in Virginia. "They both committed the same crimes. No, I don't feel any closure. I mean, it's ... it ... nothing changes."
Muhammad was the mastermind behind the Washington-area sniper attacks of 2002, which left 10 dead and terrorized the nation's capital. He was declared dead at 9:11 p.m. ET, said Larry Traylor, director of communications for the Virginia Department of Corrections.
"There were no complications," Traylor told reporters outside the Greenville Correctional Center. "Mr. Muhammad was asked if he wished to make a last statement. He did not acknowledge this or make a last statement whatsoever."
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at 08:27 on November 11th, 2009
Hope it was a big rusty needle
at 09:08 on November 11th, 2009
...wonder how that 72 virgins thing is working out for him?
at 10:04 on November 11th, 2009
Apparently it doesn't state which sex the virgins are, or even species for that matter! HA!
at 10:14 on November 11th, 2009
Well, unfortunately, the 72 virgins is indeed working for him, and there is nothing that can be done about it. You can curse, spit, scream, but there is nothing that can undo the fact, that if he in his mind believed the Koran, then sure as God made mohammed, he is with those 72 virgins, right as we speak. If one studies the works of Peter Novak and Anthony Peake, their combined expertise on quantum physics, the division of consciousness, and binary mind, the right brain will give what you believe via a time dilation mechanism of the brain structure on the point of cellular death. If I am the best and kindest person in the world, but think I am awful and deserve hell, into hell my right brain will lead me at cellular death. If this guy believes, then yes, he is in a time dilation with 72 virgins, regardless of how mad it makes us all.
at 11:02 on November 11th, 2009
Makes equal sense as heavenly aspirations. Same..just a different flavor is all