Execution of an American Terrorist

J.B. Walker (left) of Harrisonburg and Barbara Kinsman, of Bridgewater attend a vigil, organized by the Harrisonburg Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee was held in Harrisonburg on Court Square during the 9 p.m. execution of John Allen Muhammad. Muhammad masterminded a wave of random shootings that left 10 people dead and terrorized the Washington region for more than three weeks in October 2002.

John Allen Muhammad’s final appeal for clemency from Virginia Governor Tim Kaine failed and he was executed by lethal injection at Virginia’s death chamber in Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt Tuesday night. Muhammad masterminded a wave of random shootings that left 10 people dead and terrorized the Washington region for more than three weeks in October 2002.

A vigil, organized by the Harrisonburg Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee was held in Harrisonburg on Court Square during the 9 p.m. execution of Muhammad.

The group stages vigils every time an inmate is executed in Virginia “to mourn the violence – both against the lives that have been taken in crime and the lives that, in turn, are taken by our state,” according to a statement.

A vigil, organized by the Harrisonburg Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee was held in Harrisonburg on Court Square during the 9 p.m. execution of John Allen Muhammad.

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