Tomorrow, barring any intervention, the D.C. sniper will die.
John Allen Muhammad, 48, along with a teenage accomplice staged a three-week reign of terror over the D.C.-metro region in 2002.
Random victims were killed, fear of the unknown spread and hardly anybody felt safe. Even here in Manassas, we were not spared.
In fact, Muhammad’s death sentence was for his murder of Dean Harold Meyers at a gas station near Manassas in 2002.
Victims and family will be allowed to attend Muhammad’s execution and we hope they can find some peace in watching the man who terrorized them leave this world.
For our part, we will not be sad to see him go. The Prince William County area, though it has its fair share of crime, has not experienced fear on the same scale since 2002, and we don’t want to ever
experience it again.
Of course, it is not as if Muhammad would be able to return even if he weren’t being put to death, but he does deserve worse than a continued life in a penal institution. He deserves to die.
He killed without compassion or concern. He took loved ones from their family and friends and he turned otherwise comfortable lives into insecure ones.
His punishment is lethal injection, and the editorial board of this newspaper will lose no sleep over his passing.
Hopefully, justice will be served tomorrow to John Allen Muhammad.
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