Johnallenmuhammad

The Execution of D.C. Sniper John Allen Muhammad

Video by Opposing Views Editorial Staff
(November 11, 2009) in Politics / Death Penalty
In this haunting video, Washington Times photographer and videographer Katie Falkenberg records the events leading up to the execution of D.C. sniper John Allen Muhammad. Convicted of six counts of murder, Muhammad maintained his innocence until the state pronounced him dead at 9:11 p.m. EST. His final meal was chicken and red sauce. He chose not to make a final statement.


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  • david
    Good Riddance

    Good riddance to the garbage that he was!

    - davidUS November 11, 2009 11:41AM

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  • mr average
    It's a start

    Let's expand the death penalty to cover many more crimes. It's time we caught up with the rest of the world and stop coddling criminals. For example, the death penalty is applied in at least 25 other countries for economic crimes such as bribery or corruption of public officials, embezzelment of public funds or theft of public property, currency speculation, fraud, forgery, habitual theft and aggravated theft. Then there are those wise countries that impose the deth sentnce for drug offenses and sexual offenses. Why are we so far behind these enlightened countries such as Nigeria, Pakistan, Sudan, Iran, Kuwait, China, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, South Korea, etc. etc. ?

    Either the thugs will be deterred by the penalty if they're caught and the crime won't happen in the first place, or we'll eventually kill off most of the criminals when they are caught. Either way, the crime rate goes down and decent, hard working AMERICANS can live their lives in peace and security.

    - mr averageUS November 11, 2009 12:10PM

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    • Father Time
      oh please.

      "For example, the death penalty is applied in at least 25 other countries for economic crimes such as bribery or corruption of public officials, embezzelment of public funds or theft of public property, currency speculation, fraud, forgery, habitual theft and aggravated theft."

      Yeah countries like say communist China and Muslim theocracies. Most European countries don't have the death penalty.

      Also giving the death penalty for small crimes such as that is insane. It ensures that there will be absolutely no deterrent for the criminal to continue to commit even more atrocious crimes.

      - Father TimeUS November 11, 2009 11:07PM

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      • mr average
        Please please me

        "Also giving the death penalty for small crimes such as that is insane. It ensures that there will be absolutely no deterrent for the criminal to continue to commit even more atrocious crimes."

        If one of the reasons for having a death penalty is its supposed deterrent effect, don't you think that it would server as a major deterrent for minor crimes? I mean, who would shoplift from a store if they knew that they could be executed for doing so?

        The problem is that the public is not made aware enough of the executions that are done. If everyone was able to watch them being carried out - brodcast on TV and having them take place in public - sports arenas, public commons, etc. - then the deterrent effect would be MUCH greater. The problem with the way we kill 'em now is that it's too clean, too sanitized, too hidden from public view. Nobody except the dozen or so witnesses ever experience the reality of the penalty. Because it's so unreal to people, there's no deterrent effect.

        - mr averageUS November 12, 2009 8:25AM

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        • Father Time
          reply

          and if a person does shoplift and gets caught what's to stop them from engaging in a shoooouts or killing witnesses. If it was a perfect deterrent we wouldn't have homicide or gangs.


          Also public executions didn't work either

          - Father TimeUS November 12, 2009 6:45PM

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          • Father Time
            correction

            I meant to say 'engaging in a shootout'

            - Father TimeUS November 13, 2009 4:01AM

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        • TheCatholicHeretic
          Mirror, mirror

          Read up on:

          Caligula,
          Hitler,
          Stalin,
          Pol Pot
          (This is just a sampling)

          They're views are very similar to yours.

          - TheCatholicHereticUS November 14, 2009 2:41PM

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  • kylo1
    Doesn't make sense

    The death penalty is the most backward thing I can think of.

    A) Killing to punish killing simply doesn't make sense.
    B) It would be a far worse punishment to live in prison for life than to simply drift off to sleep .

    - kylo1US November 11, 2009 12:19PM

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    • JKM121
      So it's fair to

      give life in repayment for death?

      The death penalty tends to deter more crime as people fear it much more than a prison sentence; with the latter, one has a chance to escape. Death, on the other hand, might be permanent.

      - JKM121US November 11, 2009 7:28PM

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      • kylo1
        Is that based on opinion?

        The death penalty doesn't deter anyone. You can see this in the violence rates. Even though the death penalty is handed out in this country, crime still goes up. It has been going down recently but that is from different factors.

        - kylo1US November 11, 2009 7:56PM

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        • JKM121
          hmm...

          upon further investigation into the issue, it seems that any correlations that may exist strictly between crime rates and the death penalty are difficult to discern; and you are correct that there are a number of factors that play into a crime rate, the existence of the death penalty notwithstanding. However, that does not detract from the justice of the death penalty, for he who would unjustly deprive another of genuine liberty (perhaps even threatens such), forfeits his own; exceptions abound, for instance in the case of young children .

          - JKM121US December 19, 2009 6:02PM

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    • pl21224
      And why not?

      A) Obviously one who maliciously murders others for no just reason does not value life.
      B) I prefer to be protected, rather than punish.

      - pl21224TH November 11, 2009 11:20PM

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  • truthseeker1
    The world is now a better place.

    It is too bad that we feel a need for the death penalty . However, Mr. Muhammad, and people like him give rise to the need. It is better to attend to that need.

    - truthseeker1US November 11, 2009 1:30PM

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  • mark aleshnick
    america is a blood thirsty genocidal "country.,"

    Has anyone ever looked at the list of countries that still subscribe to capital punishment ?

    You would see a list of countries that americans refer to as terrorist and rogue nations.

    How is america NOT a terroristic or rogue nation?

    mark aleshnick
    Okinawa, Japan

    - mark aleshnickJP November 12, 2009 6:28AM

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