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Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine clears the way for the execution of sniper John Allen Muhammad for the attacks that terrorized the nation’s capital region for three weeks in 2002.

Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine clears the way for the execution of sniper John Allen Muhammad for the attacks that terrorized the nation’s capital region for three weeks in 2002.

Virginia is preparing to lethally inject John Allen Muhammad on Tuesday for murdering a man at a gas station seven years ago — one in a series of sniper shootings that terrorized the D.C.

Seven years after John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo went on a homicidal rampage across the Washington area, their work still torments the families it touched.

As Virginia prepares to execute  John Allen Muhammad  on Tuesday, authorities are unable to answer perhaps the most basic question about the killings: How many people did he and Malvo shoot and kill?