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Washington sniper put to death

Updated on 11 November 2009

Source PA News

A sniper who terrorised America during a three-week killing spree in 2002 has been executed by lethal injection.

John Allen Muhammad, 48, and his teenage accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo were behind a series of attacks that left 10 people dead in and around the Washington DC area.

Muhammad was pronounced dead at 9.11pm local time (2.11am Wednesday, GMT) at the Greenville Correctional Centre in Virginia.

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