DC sniper to ask Supreme Court to block execution
WASHINGTON (AP) - Attorneys for sniper mastermind John Allen
Muhammad plan to file an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court in an
effort to stop next week's execution.
Muhammad is scheduled to die by lethal injection next Tuesday at
a Virginia prison.
Attorneys for the 48-year-old have said they planned to file the
appeal Tuesday. They asked Gov. Timothy M. Kaine for clemency last
month.
Muhammad is to be executed for the slaying of Dean Harold Meyers
at a Manassas, Va., gas station during a three-week killing spree
in October 2002 that left 10 dead in Maryland, Virginia and the
District of Columbia.
Muhammad and his teenage accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, were also
suspected of fatal shootings in other states, including Louisiana
and Alabama. Malvo is serving a life sentence in prison.
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