USA - Virginia. Governor: No reason to stop John Allen Muhammad's execution.

Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine said today he can't think of any reason he would stop the execution of Washington, D.C.-area sniper John Allen Muhammad. Muhammad is scheduled to be executed Nov. 10 for the October 2002 killing spree that left 10 dead in the nation's capital, Virginia and Maryland. "I know of nothing in this case now that would suggest that there is any credible claim of innocence or that there was anything procedurally wrong with the prosecution," Kaine said on his monthly call-in radio show on WTOP. Kaine said he would review Muhammad's petition for clemency when he gets it. Muhammad attorney Jon Sheldon said there were "huge procedural errors in the case" that he plans to raise in the clemency petition he expects to file in mid-October, and other issues he'll raise in a motion with the U.S. Supreme Court in early November. Muhammad was sentenced to death on March 9, 2004 (see) for the Oct. 9, 2002 slaying of Dean Meyers, who was shot at a Manassas gas station. Myers was o1of 10 people killed over a 3-week period in 2002 by Muhammad and his teenage accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo. Malvo is serving a life sentence.