USA - Virginia. John Allen Muhammad was executed

John Allen Muhammad, 48, black, was executed at 9:11 p.m. at Greenville Correctional Center. Observers said Muhammad made no final statement before receiving a lethal injection. Muhammad was executed for the October 9, 2002, killing of Dean Harold Meyers outside a Manassas, Virginia, service station. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Muhammad's final appeal yesterday and Gov. Timothy M. Kaine denied his request for clemency today. Throughout October 2002, Muhammad and his teenage accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, launched a series of apparently random sniper attacks from Muhammad's car, which had been rigged so that a shooter could lay down in the trunk and shoot a rifle through a hole in the back of the vehicle without being seen. They killed 10 people in Virginia, Maryland and Washington D.C. during their spree. They were finally caught Oct. 24, 2002. Lee Boyd Malvo was also convicted for murder in Virginia and Maryland. Because he was a juvenile at the time of the shootings, he was not eligible for the death penalty. He is serving several life sentences. The two were also suspected in shootings in Arizona, Louisiana and Alabama. Muhammad becomes the 2nd condemned inmate to be put to death this year in Virginia and the 104th overall since the state resumed capital punishment in 1982. Muhammad becomes the 45th condemned inmate to be put to death this year in the USA and the 1181st overall since the nation resumed executions on January 17, 1982.