US sniper executed
Published:Wednesday | November 11, 2009 | 8:50 AM
The man behind the 2002 sniper attacks in and around Washington DC in the United States has been executed after a last ditch appeal was thrown out.
48-year-old John Allen Muhammad was injected with a lethal drug for the murder of Dean Harold Meyers, one of 10 people killed during the attacks.
He was pronounced dead at 9:11 last night at the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Virginia.
Muhammad’s lawyers said he was mentally ill, but Virginia Governor Tim Kaine rejected a plea for clemency.
Yesterday the US Supreme Court quashed an appeal for a stay of execution.
Muhammad\'s accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, who was 17 at the time of the shootings, is serving a life sentence in jail.
The pair killed 10 people during three weeks of attacks in Maryland, Washington and Virginia.