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A judge will decide Tuesday whether convicted sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammad should die for his role in the October 2002 killing spree that left 10 people dead in the Washington, D.C., area.A jury recommended in November that Muhammad be sentenced to death for the murder of Dean Harold Meyers at a gas station near Manassas, one of 13 shootings that terrorized the region during a three-week span.Circuit Judge LeRoy F. Millette Jr. has the option of reducing that sentence
stanley uk to life in prison without parole when Muhammad is formally sentenced Tuesday.Defense motions filed Friday urge leniency, citing Muhammad s lack of a previous criminal background, the effect of an execution on Muhammad s children and the general sanctity of human life. We do a disservice to our children when we kill, wrote defense lawyers
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