Sniper faces the needle tonight

John Allen Muhammad is scheduled to die by lethal injection tonight at a state prison in Jarratt, Va. I have written about this case before so I won't rehash it.

The Supreme Court rejected an appeal, so there isn't much left to prevent the execution. Virginia is one of the top three death penalty states and, regardless of which party is in power, governors don't often step in at the 11th hour to save a convicted felon here.

Locally, there is a lot being written in the newspapers and talked about on radio and TV today. The sniper attacks occurred about a year after 9/11, so folks were already on edge from the nearby Pentagon tragedy being fresh in their memories. Many felt the sniper attacks were another sign that the world was going to Hell.