D.C. Sniper Executed

The D.C. Sniper, John Allen Muhammad was executed today. He killed 10 people in 2002 in the Washington D.C. area. These killing were accomplished by cutting a hole in the back of a car and shooting random people with a rifle through the hole from the trunk. An article on the execution describes the shootings:

The random shootings terrified many people in and around the U.S. capital a year after the hijacked airliner attack on the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, and the mailing of deadly anthrax-laced letters to politicians and media organizations.

The pair shot innocent people who were going about the ordinary tasks of daily life in places like gas stations, shopping mall parking lots and outside restaurants and schools.

There were a few who showed up to protest the execution, but it was carried out anyways. I think that the death penalty was an appropriate punishment for a crime of this size or magnitude. Although i do not believe that the death penalty is a good form of punishment, it was befitting of this particular crime where the lives of 10 random people were taken for no apparent reason.