The DC Sniper Executed
Lunden Gillespie
Issue date: 11/18/09 Section: News
The mastermind behind the 2002 sniper attacks, John Muhammad, was declared dead on November 10, 2009 at 9:11 p.m.
For twenty three days in October of 2002, he and his accomplice Lee Malvo caused the metropolitan area to panic.
For many, walking down the street, waiting at the bus stop, or pumping gas -- all activities that usually were done without fear -- were done in terror, or not done at all. Seeing everyday people being killed doing their everyday things left people unwilling to go out if they did not have to.
Resident of Rockville, Katrina Rizzo, shared her feelings about the issue because like many others, she was terrified as well, only in 9th grade at the time.
"He felt it right to simply take lives away from innocent people, so why should the court cut him any slack? A man like he does not deserve the life he was given, therefore I fully support the death penalty," said Rizzo.
She continued, "The reason people are uneasy about this is because it was a premeditated decision by Virginia, 'we are going to kill this man.' The public does not like being looked at as killers. However, if someone would have just gunned him down, no one would be against that".
FSU sophomore Byron Jones said, "He should have been killed because of all the lives he took. He was killing people for no apparent reason".
Former student Terrell Ransom agreed, but added, "Death equals justice. We all have to die and we all have the power to kill. Such power in a legal system is a forbidden right."
FSU student Joseph Sherrod reveals that he was at the gas station and pumped gas from the same pump at the Aspen Hill gas station where Premkumar Walekar was shot and killed only 15 minutes prior.
He added that, "If we had been much later getting out the door, it could've been me."
Mildred Muhammad, John Muhammad's ex wife, recently had a phone interview with the Associate Press and was asked about the execution and how she and her children were reacting to everything.
For twenty three days in October of 2002, he and his accomplice Lee Malvo caused the metropolitan area to panic.
For many, walking down the street, waiting at the bus stop, or pumping gas -- all activities that usually were done without fear -- were done in terror, or not done at all. Seeing everyday people being killed doing their everyday things left people unwilling to go out if they did not have to.
Resident of Rockville, Katrina Rizzo, shared her feelings about the issue because like many others, she was terrified as well, only in 9th grade at the time.
"He felt it right to simply take lives away from innocent people, so why should the court cut him any slack? A man like he does not deserve the life he was given, therefore I fully support the death penalty," said Rizzo.
She continued, "The reason people are uneasy about this is because it was a premeditated decision by Virginia, 'we are going to kill this man.' The public does not like being looked at as killers. However, if someone would have just gunned him down, no one would be against that".
FSU sophomore Byron Jones said, "He should have been killed because of all the lives he took. He was killing people for no apparent reason".
Former student Terrell Ransom agreed, but added, "Death equals justice. We all have to die and we all have the power to kill. Such power in a legal system is a forbidden right."
FSU student Joseph Sherrod reveals that he was at the gas station and pumped gas from the same pump at the Aspen Hill gas station where Premkumar Walekar was shot and killed only 15 minutes prior.
He added that, "If we had been much later getting out the door, it could've been me."
Mildred Muhammad, John Muhammad's ex wife, recently had a phone interview with the Associate Press and was asked about the execution and how she and her children were reacting to everything.
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