US Supreme Court refuses to stop sniper execution
Published:Tuesday | November 10, 2009 | 11:05 AM
The United States Supreme Court has refused to block Tuesday\'s scheduled execution of sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammad, according to a report on www.ap.org.
The Court did not comment Monday on why it refused to consider his appeal.
Muhammad is scheduled to die by injection at a Virginia prison for the slaying of Dean Harold Meyers at a gas station during a three-week spree in 2002 across Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C.
Muhammad and his teenage accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, also were suspected of fatal shootings in other states, including Louisiana, Alabama, Arizona. Malvo is serving a life sentence in Maryland.
Muhammad still has a clemency petition before Virginia Governor Timothy M. Kaine.
Muhammad\'s attorney, Jonathan Sheldon, says \"Virginia will execute a severely mentally ill man who also suffered from Gulf War Syndrome the day before Veterans Day.\"