About two hours from now the state of Virginia will execute by lethal injection John Allen Muhammad the "Beltway Sniper", who terrorized the DC area in the fall of 2002 - hard to believe 7 years have passed. In all he and his accomplice killed ten random people. As you can tell by my previous writings, I am not a supporter of the death penalty. I believe life is God's alone to create and end. That said, if ever a person deserved to be executed, John Allen Muhammad does. I won't shed a tear for him today but I will say a prayer for the families and friends of his victims who will live with the punishment he dolled out for the remainder of their lives. I can't support this execution but if it brings some amount of closure to those families at least some good will have come from it.
A little extra. Did you know that the United States and Japan are the only two developed nations in the world that impose the death penalty?
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