I've never been the one for capital punishment because I don't believe that any one has the right to play God. Who are we to say who lives and dies? Now don't get me wrong, I do believe that all bad deeds should not go unpunished, but the sentencing of another to death is just wrong! Taking the life of another does not suffice the lost of the first. I know some may say that some acts are too atrocious to not condemn an individual to death, but I believe that allowing them death is the easy way out. Insead, we should force criminals to live with the torment of their every day life wasting away in a cell that constantly reminds them of their evil ways. Not all convicts are remorseful for the content of their actions, but what about those who are? As the old saying goes "Do the crime, pay the time".
LAHJ

JUSTICE NOT SERVED

According to the Associated Press, "Forty-eight year-old, John Muhammad, also known as the "D.C. Sniper," died by legal injection at 9:11 p.m. on Tuesday, November 10, 2009.

Muhammad was executed for killing Dean Harold Meyers, who was shot in the head at a Manassas gas station during the spree across Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C.

Relatives of the victims watched from behind glass, separated from the rest of the 27witnesses at Greensville Correctional Center, south of Richmond."

As I have continuosly followed up on the news reports pertainting to this story, I cannot help but think that the United States justice system continues to grow more and more inconsistent.

The same charges that have been brought up against other individuals who have been found guilty of first degree murder, have resulted in thier sentence to prison. Why did John Muhammad deserve to die? Was the murder of Dean Meyers so different from the many other victims who's lives have been swept away from them in an instance?

I can answer that; NO! I do not think that any individual has the authority to decide the fate of someone else's life. I oppose all types of death sentences and despite the inhumane acts that he may have participated in, this man did not deserve to be killed.

By Natalia Rawls

John Allen Muhammad Execution

This mouth John Allen Muhammad was executed because he was the mastermind behind the Washington area sniper, which took place in 2002. He terrorized the nation's capital and with the help of Lee Boyd Malvo,a teenage accomplice.

John Allen Muhammad was pronouns dead at 9:11pm, but Lee Boyd Malvo, the teenage accomplice has a life in prison without parole for killing Linda Franklin.

What John Muhammad did was wrong, but the death penalty is worst. Just because he took away lives, does not give others the right to take away his.

I remember when I was in the 8th grade, Mr. Sanders, my Social Studies teacher told my class about a man who had a life in prison and while he was in prison he painted perfect women body, but sense he had life, he put men faces on the women's body. After he told us that story, he asked the class...what is better, the death penalty or life in prison?

He should have got a life in prison like Lee Boyd Malvo (Muhammad is done with life and don't have to deal with people, but Lee does) because that will give him time to think about what he did to all those people and why he did it. By giving him the death penalty, they gave him away out.

~K.Y.B~

John Allen Muhammad Controversy

John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo were not right for shooting Iran Brown and murdering James L. Buchanan, Premkumar Walekar, Sarah Ramos, Lori Ann Lewis-Rivera, Conrad Johnson, Pascar Charlot, Dean Harold Meyers, Kenneth Bridge, Linda Franklin and Jeffrey Hopper. Is it true that if anyone steps foot on the United States soil and commits a crime will be tried according to the laws set forth in the Constitution? One would say, the two men deserve to have death sentences because of what they did. Think about what they were probably thinking when they were shooting people. What is religiously motivated? It was not a racial motivated act because they killed African Americans along with other ethnicities, it was not a hatred towards women because men were murdered and it was not targeted at adults because a teen was killed and a child was injured. Why did they think these victims deserved to die? Were the victims wrongdoers in Muhammad and Malvo's opinion? John Allen Muhammad has been put to death and time can not be changed but is the government wrong for wanting Muhammad to die because he was a wrongdoer? If so, isn't the government guilty of doing exactly what Muhammad and Malvo did?

Perspective on John Muhammed

My perspective on John Muhammad, is that justice was served and i think that justice was served because people just don't go around killing other people because they want to and i believe that giving the death penalty will make other criminals think before they do the wrong thing. William A. Stone

Perspective on John Muhammad

My perspective on John Muhammd, is i think that he got what he deserved, because you just don't go around shooting peoples for nothing and i think the death penalty served him right.