I remember this story, like it was yesterday:
He was happy to watch the sniper die.
“I feel better. I think I can breathe better,” Nelson Rivera said as he watched the execution of convicted killer John Allen Muhammad. “I’m glad he’s gone because he’s not going to hurt anyone else.”
Rivera’s wife Lori Ann Lewis-Rivera, was one of Muhammad’s 10 victims in a three-week killing spree in the Washington, D.C., area in October 2002. She was gunned down as she vacuumed her van at a Maryland gas station in 2002.
Muhammad taunted police with written messages and phoned-in threats and demands.
He was put to death at the Greenville Correctional Center in Virginia Tuesday night as the victims’ families sat behind glass while watching, separated from the rest of the 27 witnesses.
The execution came hours after Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine denied a last-minute clemency request and a day after the
Supreme Court declined to intervene in the case.
Muhammad was declared dead at 9:11 p.m.
via Families of DC sniper victims celebrate John Allen Muhammad’s execution.
I, like many others, were glued to the television, for me it was CNN, watching as this story played out. I, like many others, were still raw after 9/11. CNN never did put the terrorist connection on it. Even though the killer admitted that his motives were of a Islamic terrorist sort. What makes me so damned angry, is the fact that the Liberal media likes to paint this bastard as some sort of a victim of war. The common excuse is that he was driven crazy by the first gulf war. Sorry, I do not buy that idiotic bunch of tripe at all. I know many people who served in that first gulf war; one man personally, while he did have a nasty cough, that he could not shake. He never killed anyone, at all. The sad fact is; that the Ft. Hood shooting and this case are two peas out of the same damned pod, and the idiotic liberal media just will not put the two together. Because they fear a backlash from the Muslim community.
As much as I know, that it will most likely get me attacked for saying this, I happen to agree with this guy here:
I will simply end with this; this is one black man, that I am extremely glad to see is dead. One terrorist down, many millions more to go.