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John Allen Muhammad
Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine has just denied clemency for DC sniper John Allen Muhammad, clearing the way for his execution by lethal injection tonight at 9 p.m.
CNN will feature special programming surrounding the story. At 9 ET, "Larry King Live" will broadcast live from the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt with eye-witness accounts from the victims' families.
At 10 ET, Anderson Cooper's "AC360" will follow Muhammad's "timeline of terror" and "look back at the investigation that led to [his] arrest."
The three-week shooting spree in 2002 left at least ten dead in DC, Maryland and Virginia, and terrorized the entire region, and beyond. The U.S. Supreme Court turned down Muhammad's final appeal. His attorneys had asked Kaine to commute his sentence to life in prison because they say he is mentally ill.
"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 statement Tuesday. "Accordingly, I decline to intervene."
Muhammad was sentenced to death specifically for killing Dean Harold Meyers at a Manassas gas station. He and his teenage accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, are also suspected of fatal shootings in other states, including Louisiana, Alabama and Arizona.
Muhammad was offered a choice for his last meal, which he accepted and requested that details not be released to the public, NBC News reported.
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