VIRGINIA - UNDATED: In this recent but undated handout photo from the Virginia Department of Corrections, convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad poses for a mugshot. Muhammad, 48, is set to die by lethal injection in Greensville Correctional Center tonight, seven years after he and his teenage accomplice terrorized the area in and around the nation's capital for three weeks. Getty Images logo Getty Images 1 week ago

VIRGINIA - UNDATED: In this recent but undated handout photo from the Virginia Department of Corrections, convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad poses for a mugshot. Muhammad, 48, is set to die by lethal injection in Greensville Correctional Center tonight, seven years after he and his teenage accomplice terrorized the area in and around the nation's capital for three weeks.

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  1. Mildred Muhammad, of Prince George's County, Md., poses for a portrait in Washington, on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009. Muhammad's ex-husband, John Allen Muhammad, is the mastermind of the 2002 sniper attacks in the Washington area that left 10 dead.
  2. Sheron Norman, center, sister-in-law of executed D.C. sniper John Allen Muhammad leaves the New Southside Funeral Home Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009 after funeral services for Muhammad in Baton Rouge, La. Muhammad was put to death last week in Virginia for killing Dean Harold Meyers at a gas station during an October 2002 shooting spree.
  3. Friends and family of executed D.C. sniper John Allen Muhammad leave the New Southside Funeral Home Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009 after funeral services for Muhammad in Baton Rouge, La. Muhammad was put to death last week in Virginia for killing Dean Harold Meyers at a gas station during an October 2002 shooting spree.
  4. Friends and family of executed D.C. sniper John Allen Muhammad leave the New Southside Funeral Home Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009 after funeral services for Muhammad in Baton Rouge, La. Muhammad was put to death last week in Virginia for killing Dean Harold Meyers at a gas station during an October 2002 shooting spree.
  5. Friends and family of executed D.C. sniper John Allen Muhammad leave the New Southside Funeral Home Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009 after funeral services for Muhammad in Baton Rouge, La. Muhammad was put to death last week in Virginia for killing Dean Harold Meyers at a gas station during an October 2002 shooting spree.
  6. Baton Rouge Police Lt. Ronald Norman, Sr., center, greets visitors to New Southside Funeral Home before funeral services for D.C. sniper John Allen Muhammad in Baton Rouge, La., Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009. Norman is the husband of Muhammad's sister-in-law, Sheron Norman. Muhammad was put to death last week in Virginia for killing Dean Harold Meyers at a gas station during an October 2002 shooting spree.
  7. Lindbergh Williams, right, son of executed D.C. sniper John Allen Muhammad meets with reporters Friday, Nov. 13, 2009 outside the Baton Rouge, La. City Hall. Williams, 27, who was with his father the day of his execution, says he does not want to be judged by his father's crimes. Williams uncle, Ronald Norman is on the left.
  8. Lindbergh Williams, right, son of executed D.C. sniper John Allen Muhammad meets with reporters Friday, Nov. 13, 2009 outside the Baton Rouge, La. City Hall. Williams, 27, who was with his father the day of his execution, says he does not want to be judged by his father's crimes. Williams uncle, Ronald Norman is on the left.
  9. This undated photo provided by the Virginia Department of Corrections shows an electric chair. Larry Bill Elliott is scheduled to be executed by choice of electrocution Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009 for the January 2001 shooting deaths of 25-year-old Dana Thrall and 30-year-old Robert Finch.
  10. This undated photo provided by the Virginia Department of Corrections shows Larry Bill Elliott, scheduled to be executed Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009 for the January 2001 shooting deaths of 25-year-old Dana Thrall and 30-year-old Robert Finch. Elliott is scheduled to become the first Virginia inmate to die by electrocution since 2006.
  11. This undated photo provided by the Virginia Department of Corrections shows Larry Bill Elliott, scheduled to be executed Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009 for the January 2001 shooting deaths of 25-year-old Dana Thrall and 30-year-old Robert Finch.
  12. In this image made from a March 2005 video released Monday, Nov. 16, 2009 by the Wisconsin Department of Corrections, a prison guard, back to camera, throws a non-lethal grenade into an inmate's cell at the Wisconsin Secure Program Facility in Boscobel, Wis. The AP requested the video after the state paid $49,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by the inmate, Raynard Jackson. He alleged the detonation of the stinger grenade in his cell amounted to excessive force.
  13. In this image made from a March 2005 video released Monday, Nov. 16, 2009 by the Wisconsin Department of Corrections, a prison guard points to the the spot where a non-lethal grenade landed after it was thrown into an inmate's cell at the Wisconsin Secure Program Facility in Boscobel, Wis. The AP requested the video after the state paid $49,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by the inmate, Raynard Jackson. He alleged the detonation of the stinger grenade in his cell amounted to excessive force.
  14. Virginia Department of Corrections Director of Communications Larry Traylor (C) announces the execution of John Allen Muhammad at the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Virginia November 10, 2009. Muhammad was sentenced to die for the murder of Dean Harold Meyers, one of 10 people left dead in a shooting spree by Muhammad and younger accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo that terrorized the Washington, DC, area in October 2002.
  15. Virginia Department of Corrections Director of Communications Larry Traylor pauses as he announces the execution of John Allen Muhammad at the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Virginia November 10, 2009. Muhammad was sentenced to die for the murder of Dean Harold Meyers, one of 10 people left dead in a shooting spree by Muhammad and younger accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo that terrorized the Washington, DC, area in October 2002.
  16. Sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad addresses the jury as he delivers his opening argument as Prince William County bailiff Jack Fullmore watches during his trial in courtroom 10 at the Virginia Beach Circuit Court in Virginia Beach, Virginia in this October 20, 2003 file photograph. John Allen Muhammad was executed on Tuesday for masterminding and carrying out with his teenage accomplice the 2002 sniper shootings that killed 10 people and terrified the Washington, D.C., region a year after the 9/ll and the deadly anthrax attacks. The 48-year-old Muhammad was put to death by lethal injection at the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Virginia, said Virginia Department of Corrections spokesman Larry Traylor.

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