In 1987, at the age of 27, he joined the Nation of Islam. Williams was mainly raised by his maternal grandfather and an aunt. After his mother's death, his father left. īorn John Allen Williams in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to Ernest and Eva Williams, he and his family moved to New Orleans when his mother was diagnosed with breast cancer she died when he was three years old. Muhammad declined to make a final statement. EST at the Greensville Correctional Center near Jarratt, Virginia, and was pronounced dead at 9:11 p.m.

Muhammad was executed by lethal injection on November 10, 2009, at 9:06 p.m. Appeals for Muhammad's other trials remained pending at the time of his execution. All appeals of his conviction for killing Meyers had been made and rejected. He was not tried on additional charges in other Virginia jurisdictions and faced potential trials in three other states and the District of Columbia involving other murders and attempted murders. Upon completion of the trial activity in Maryland, Muhammad was returned to Virginia's death row pending an agreement with another state or the District of Columbia seeking to try him. He was convicted of six counts of first-degree murder on May 30, 2006. While awaiting execution in Virginia, in August 2005, he was extradited to Maryland to face some of the charges there. Four months later he was sentenced to death. His trial for one of the murders (of Dean Harold Meyers in Prince William County, Virginia) began in October 2003, and the following month he was found guilty of capital murder. At Muhammad's trial, the prosecutor claimed that the attacks were part of a plot to kill his ex-wife and regain custody of his children, but the judge ruled that there was insufficient evidence to support this argument. īorn as John Allen Williams, Muhammad joined the Nation of Islam in 1987 and later changed his surname to Muhammad. Although the actions of the two individuals were classified by the media as psychopathy attributable to serial killer characteristics, whether or not their psychopathy meets this classification or as a spree killer is debated by researchers. Muhammad and Malvo were arrested in connection with the attacks on October 24, 2002, following tips from alert citizens. sniper attacks of October 2002, killing 10 people. He, along with his partner and accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo (aged 17), a native of Kingston, Jamaica, carried out the D.C. John Allen Muhammad (born Williams December 31, 1960 – November 10, 2009) was an American convicted murderer from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Kuwait Liberation Medal ( Saudi Arabia, Kuwait).

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