Supreme Court denies D.C. sniper last-minute appeal

CNN reported that the U.S. Supreme Court refused a last-minute appeal to stop John Allen Muhammad, the sniper convicted in a case involving the D.C. area shootings in 2002, from being executed.

Muhammad, a former soldier, was found responded for killing ten people and wounding at least three in the D.C. area during a cold-blooded sniper spree in the fall of 2002. Muhammad is scheduled to be executed Tuesday, Nov. 10 at the Virginia Greensville Correctional Center, close to Richmond.

His lawyers wanted to get an appeal to the execution, but the high court rejected this appeal. The Supreme Court justices rejected a final emergency appeal from Muhammad's attorney saying that he deserves more time to develop his appeal. The justices said there is no reason as to why he should not be executed.

A Washington Post report interviewed some of the victim's families. Dean Meyers was one of the victims Muhammad had killed. Some of his family members will be there to witness Muhammad's execution. Bob Meyers and his wife, Lori, will be at Muhammad's execution by lethal injection in Virginia.

Muhammad will be put to death on Tuesday.