Washington sniper John Allen Muhammad to be executed Muhammad, who was born John Allen Williams but changed his name when he converted to Islam, declined to choose and officials therefore decided on the injection method.
He and his accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo, now 24, terrorised the Washington area, killing 10 people in a three-week period before they were arrested. Using a battered car as a firing platform, they selected their targets at random and shot them at long rage.
Under Virginia law, a condemned man may select whether to die by the electric chair or lethal election