So it's all over for the DC sniper tonight. I still don't know how I feel about it. Obviously the man (John Allen Muhammad) is severely disturbed to have senselessly taken the lives of so many innocent people. I've just seen other pending executions take MUCH longer to actualize. Maybe it's just me.
Maybe it's because there are still no real answers as to why. And what we have heard is confusing. Lee Boyd Malvo, Muhammad's accomplice, said Muhammad wanted to use the plot to extort $10 million from the government to set up a camp in Canada where homeless children would be trained as terrorists. What? Why? The guy did spend a good amount of time in the military so I'm just going to blame it on that. This is nuts too...Muhammad's ex-wife says she believes the attacks were a smoke screen for his plan to kill her and regain custody of their three children. Is that what she got? I didn't get that. Muhammad seemed pretty ruthless. I mean the man outfitted a car so that his teenage shooter could hide in the trunk and shoot through a hole....completely unsuspecting. That said, I'd think if he wanted to kill her and take the kids, he probably would've just done that.
So still, no one really knows why he did it. Muhammad has never testified or explained why he directed the attacks. It's very sad. Especially for the victim's families...he'll die tonight but they may never get the closure they need. They'll never know why.
Muhammad is to die by lethal injection tonight at 9 p.m. Malvo is serving life in prison without parole. The death penalty was ruled out as he was 17 at the time of the fatal shootings.
-ttyl, toya
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