D.C. Sniper Appeals Death Sentence
Source : AP
Convicted murderer John Allen Muhammad wants his life back. The former soldier convicted of viciously killing 10 innocent people and sentenced to death by jury, feels his childhood adversely affected his life and based upon those facts he should be spared the death penalty.
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Washington-area sniper John Allen Muhammad was regularly whipped with hose pipes and electrical cords and beaten with hammers and sticks by family members during a brutal childhood, according to lawyers trying to save him from the death penalty.
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Editor’s Note: This guy has some nerve to use an abusive childhood as a reason to kill and to then use it as an excuse to ask the court to spare his life after he permanently destroyed the lives of ten families. Off with his head! After slaughtering ten people what did he think the jury would do?
This guy is telling the courts that he does not want to appeal anymore and that they should just “murder this innocent black man”. If he really was innocent then why would he stop the appeals?
He was convicted of killing people throughout Virginia, Maryland and D.C. So I guess that he was convinced that the courts would go along with him and pass a death sentence to all the innocent people he murdered. What was their crime? What did they do to deserve to be put to death?
One could say that since he is a Muslin that he believed what the Koran teaches about those who refuse to believe that religion. The Koran teaches that the non-believers (infidels) must be put to death. Sorry, but religious fervor is not a reason or excuse to outright kill someone.
I believe that the death penalty is a necessity in any civilization. Without punishment for crime then a society will begin to fall apart from the inside and eventually it will fail. To a lesser degree look at parents who refuse to use physical forms of discipline with their children. These children are the ones who end up believing that they can get away with anything because there is no discipline structure in their life, there is no concept of taking responsibility for their actions.
As for these two individuals who went on the killing spree, I personally would be more than happy to donate the two bullets and a rifle to put them to death. They deserve to be put to death the same way they killed those innocent people.