Jarratt, Virginia (CNN) — Washington-area sniper John Allen Muhammad was executed Tuesday by lethal injection, a Virginia prisons spokesman said.
He was declared dead at 9:11 p.m., said Larry Traylor, director of communications for the Virginia Department of Corrections.
“There were no complications; Mr. Mohammad was asked if he wished to make a last statement,” he told reporters. “He did not acknowledge this or make a last statement whatsoever.”
Mohammad, 48, said nothing from the time he entered the death chamber accompanied by guards, Traylor said.
Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine denied a last-minute clemency request Tuesday for Muhammad, the mastermind behind the Washington-area sniper attacks of 2002 that terrorized the nation’s capital.
During three weeks in October 2002, Muhammad and accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo, then 17, killed 10 people and wounded three, while taunting police with written messages and phoned-in threats and demands.
“Having carefully reviewed the petition for clemency and judicial opinions regarding this case, I find no compelling reason to set aside the sentence that was recommended by the jury and then imposed and affirmed by the courts,” Kaine said in a written statement.
“Accordingly, I decline to intervene.”
The following clip is of news that was being reported just hours before his capture back in 2002:
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