On 11/10/09 at 9pm (EST) John Allen Muhammad will be put to death for his role in the infamous DC sniper shootings.  As someone who lived in that area at the time it was truly a terrific experience. I can remember seeing seeing people running and zig zaging at gas stations and supermarkets. My wife and I were watching our granddaughter at the time and she cried every morning I went to work thinking i would be shot and killed on my way to the car.  I was at one of the spots a victim was killed at about 30 min before it happened, and many of those whom i worked with came into work before dawn and stayed till after dark to avoid being at their car in daylight hours.  It truly was a terrifying time, I had been in the banking business for many years at the time and have been in a number of robberies with guns pointed at me, but myslef felt a tingle up and down my spin like no other when i walked to and from my car in those days.  I drove out of my way to get gas outside of the area where people had been shot.  Many of the target areas were places my neighbors and I shopped at.  Hell truly has a fire stoked waiting for this man, I pray god, or allah, will have mercy on his soul because I have none.

" I pray god, or allah, will have mercy on his soul because I have none."

See Matthew 7.

Nov 9, 2009 -- 9:31PM, MilesB wrote:

" I pray god, or allah, will have mercy on his soul because I have none."

See Matthew 7.

Judge me not unless you be judged first.

Forgiveness does not require setting aside man's laws.  Our laws only have jurisdiction over the body.  The soul is God's jurisdiction...

I am fundamentally opposed to the death penalty on many, many grounds - we may shed innocent blood in our desire for vengeance, it does not serve as a deterrent since the states without the death penalty have far lower crime rates than the states with one, it is simply a waste of resources and money, being cheaper to lock up a criminal forever than pay for all the costs associated with his appeals, and the state killing someone as punishment for a killing is a little like a parent who hits a kid for hitting - it only teaches that violence is acceptable, and it makes us as a nation a pariah in the eyes of the civilized world, which has long since abolished the death penalty.

This guy is repentant? Great.  Let him repent forever.  Let the world get something valuable from him while in prison, instead of removing him from the planet.