CRIMES AND CRIMINALS: MURDER HOMICIDE : LAW: CASE: DECISIONS: Supreme Court Rejects Sniper's Appeal
David P. Dillard
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CRIMES AND CRIMINALS: MURDER HOMICIDE :
LAW: CASE: DECISIONS:
Supreme Court Rejects Sniper's Appeal
Execution set for Tuesday night unless Kaine takes action
By Josh White and Robert Barnes
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Washington Post
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/
article/2009/11/09/AR2009110903055.html>
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Washington area sniper John Allen Muhammad's scheduled execution will go
forward Tuesday unless Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine intervenes, after
the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected the sniper's final legal appeal.
Muhammad, 48, has exhausted all appeals of his capital murder conviction
in the slaying of Dean H. Meyers, 53, at a Prince William County gas
station on Oct. 9, 2002. Muhammad's last chance rests with Kaine (D).
Gordon Hickey, a spokesman for Kaine, said the governor was aware of the
Supreme Court's decision but had not yet announced his own decision on
clemency. The governor can allow the execution to occur as scheduled,
delay it or commute Muhammad's sentence.
Muhammad's attorneys had argued that the sniper is mentally ill and that
he should have been granted a competency hearing before his trial, at
which he represented himself briefly. Muhammad has maintained his
innocence.
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Supreme Court justices John Paul Stevens, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia
Sotomayor objected to the court's haste in declining Muhammad's case
Monday, saying it "highlights once again the perversity of executing
inmates before their appeals process has been fully concluded."
Stevens, writing for the three, said Virginia had short-circuited the
process by scheduling Muhammad's execution for Tuesday night, earlier than
the court would normally have reviewed his petition.
"By denying Muhammad's stay application, we have allowed Virginia to
truncate our deliberative process on a matter -- involving a death row
inmate -- that demands the most careful attention," Stevens wrote.
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