John Allen Muhammad, the mastermind of the sniper attacks that terrorised the US capital region for three weeks in 2002, was executed earlier this morning.
Muhammad was not heard to utter any words during the execution.
WHO CARES.
Akmal Shaikh faces the death sentence — most likely to be carried out by injection — for having four kilograms (8.8lbs) of heroin when he flew into the western city of Urumqi, in the mainly Muslim Xinjiang region, two years ago.
Calling for mercy, his supporters say that Shaikh, 53, a father of three, has bipolar disorder and should not be held responsible for his actions. China’s Supreme Court turned down his final appeal last week and set December 29 as the date of execution. Shaikh has not been informed of the date and will learn his fate today.
What a load of rubbish that a bi polar condition caused him to smuggle drugs, lots of people suffer from that and don’t smuggle heroin, least of all to a place like China that clearly warns anyone entering their borders that they will be executed for bringing drugs into their Country.
You have to abide by the rules of the Country that you visit, this is not some naive teenage girl duped into transporting drugs, this man knew what he was doing, you can make up to a 1000% profit on your outlay selling Heroin.
The Chinese are right to have such strict laws to control the influx of drugs into their Lands, in Countries where Governments were slow to react to the threat of drugs and I will use Mexico as a example though there are many more, there have been 15000 murders in the last three years, FIFTEEN thousand lives wasted in turf wars fighting for the control of the lucrative drug trade. that is 13 murders a day every day all connected to drugs .
Not all nations problems are as severe but where drugs are a part of a society’s make up crime is on the increase. Can you imagine what this Country would be like if we had 13 murders a day for 3 years connected to drugs, actually imagine what it would be like if we had 13 murders consecutively for 3 days let alone 3 years and you see the scale of the problem.
So as terrible as it is to condone the taking of someone's life in this case I have no sympathy with Mr Shaikh and applaud the Chinese for sending a strong message, I wish our leaders were as strong.
The pirates holding the British couple hostage have threatened to kill them in one week if a ransom is not paid. A video was released yesterday in which Paul and Rachel Chandler pleaded for their lives in the harrowing footage, and begged the Government to pay a bounty to save them while surrounded by at least four kidnappers armed with machine guns trained at their heads, and rocket launchers.
The machine guns were scary enough did the savages really need to point rocket launchers at their heads to.
The Government has repeatedly said it will not negotiate with terrorists, though behind the scenes talks will be taking place, now this threat with a deadline has been made if the Chandlers are released we will know that ransom has been paid, this in turn will encourage more hostage taking, as brutal as this sounds the Government should stand tough.
If the Pirates carry out their threat then we should go in all guns blazing and wipe them off the map we know where their hideouts are, also their so called strongholds, we should determine the cold blooded execution against a defenceless British couple an act of war against our citizens and take appropriate steps in retaliation.
This strong action would serve as a warning to future pirates and wipe out in one swoop the scum that have been plaguing the seas for the last few years. We have the Fire power and we have one of the best if not the best fighting forces in the world lets use them.
Seven years after he and his teenage sidekick terrorised the Washington area with a three-week killing spree using a high-powered rifle, John Allen Muhammad — the “Beltway sniper” — is due to be executed tonight by lethal injection.
The terror this caused in and around the Washington area was immeasurable, made worse because of the unique nature of the crime, bearing in mind also that this was not long after 9/11 with America still reeling from that horror.
He should not have been allowed 7 years, He should have been put to death immediately he was convicted, 10 people lost their lives in that killing spree and if they hadn’t have been caught that number would have grown there was no indication that they had finished.
When arrested he claimed Jihad (holy war) then changed his story to say he was trying to win his ex wife back, surely flowers and chocolates would have been more appropriate.
Under Virginia law, an inmate is allowed to choose the method by which he or she will be put to death -- either lethal injection or the electric chair. Because Muhammad declined to select a method, by law he will receive a lethal injection. I would prefer to see him beheaded an injection is to easy.
