A Win for the System?
John Allen Muhammad has been sentenced to death by lethal injection.
His lawyer still claims the man was mentally ill when, in 2002 drove around with a 17 year old and killed 10 people, from Arizona to Virginia to Washington DC, in the back of a station wagon.
His accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, was sentenced to life in prison for his role.
I see nothing that leads me to believe that this man is/should be allowed leniency on those claims.
Listen, you obviously have to have a loose gasket to kill anyone. That's just a given. But the law is there to protect us from those people, not make sure they get therapy.
The man had this planned out, used a method that was very well thought out to carry out his madness.
Shooting from the back of a car would, for all purposes, hide the muzzle flashes and help pad the immense sound of firing a rifle (this isn't like the movies people) as they cut down innocent people.
Muhammad is not part of some elite terrorist plot, I hope people don't turn on Fox News and hear that sort of crap. He was a man who served his country and came home with what his lawyers are calling Gulf War Syndrome.
A psychiatric evaluation has labeled him paranoid, psychotic, and delusional. With specific examples cited...
I have the only examples I need to cite, the lives of the 10 people that are dead because of this man's actions.
I don't care if the doctors found evidence that the man may be schizophrenic. It doesn't matter. There's plenty of other schizophrenics out there, not many of them go on shooting rampages across the country.
And don't even go into the argument, well he didn't have control over his actions, etc.
When you look at the police report, John Allen Muhammad was the one who devised this plot, he pulled the trigger; not any of his "other" personalities or however you want to spin it.
That's what it comes down to.
His lawyer still claims the man was mentally ill when, in 2002 drove around with a 17 year old and killed 10 people, from Arizona to Virginia to Washington DC, in the back of a station wagon.
His accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, was sentenced to life in prison for his role.
I see nothing that leads me to believe that this man is/should be allowed leniency on those claims.
Listen, you obviously have to have a loose gasket to kill anyone. That's just a given. But the law is there to protect us from those people, not make sure they get therapy.
The man had this planned out, used a method that was very well thought out to carry out his madness.
Shooting from the back of a car would, for all purposes, hide the muzzle flashes and help pad the immense sound of firing a rifle (this isn't like the movies people) as they cut down innocent people.
Muhammad is not part of some elite terrorist plot, I hope people don't turn on Fox News and hear that sort of crap. He was a man who served his country and came home with what his lawyers are calling Gulf War Syndrome.
A psychiatric evaluation has labeled him paranoid, psychotic, and delusional. With specific examples cited...
I have the only examples I need to cite, the lives of the 10 people that are dead because of this man's actions.
I don't care if the doctors found evidence that the man may be schizophrenic. It doesn't matter. There's plenty of other schizophrenics out there, not many of them go on shooting rampages across the country.
And don't even go into the argument, well he didn't have control over his actions, etc.
When you look at the police report, John Allen Muhammad was the one who devised this plot, he pulled the trigger; not any of his "other" personalities or however you want to spin it.
That's what it comes down to.
posted by Mike at 4:26 PM




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