James Eagan Holmes' 1st Court Appearance & Modus Operandi: PhD Social Experiment ("Analyzing WHITE People")

Comedian Paul Mooney describes James Eagan Holmes' Criminal Behavior & how he will Fool the American Criminal Justice System to avoid Punishment:

"A WHITE Man Shoots a bunch of people and goes before the Judge."
"The Judge asks him: WHITE Man why did you Shoot those People?"
"WHITE Man Answers: I don't know. I have Multiple Personalities."
"The Judge says: Multiple Personalities? Interesting. We will have to Study You."

"A BLACK Man Shoots a bunch of people and goes before the Judge."
"The Judge asks him: BLACK Man why did you Shoot those People?"
"BLACK Man Answers: "I don't know. I have Multiple Personalities."
"The Judge answers: Well one of those Multiple Personalities is going to Pay for these Crimes today, I don't care if its Bob, Tim, Steve, Somebody is going to pay for these Crimes today."


Welcome to AmeriKKKa where there are 2 forms of JUSTICE!
A NON- JUSTICE System for WHITE People & a Harsh JUSTICE System for BLACK People!

THE MEDIA & WHITE AMERICA IS ATTEMPTING TO HELP SAVE JAMES EAGAN HOLMES' LIFE BECAUSE HE IS WHITE & CONSIDERED TO BE AN ACADEMIC GENIUS.

JAMES HOLMES BASICALLY LIVED A PRIVILEGED LIFE BACK IN CALIFORNIA WHERE HE GREW UP & EXCELLED ACADEMICALLY IN ALL HIS CLASSES.

HE LEARNED ALL ABOUT INSANE HUMAN BEHAVIOR DURING HIS STUDIES, THUS JAMES EAGAN HOLMES WILL NOW PLAY CRAZY & WILL NEVER, EVER SPEND A DAY IN PRISON, NOR WILL HE FACE THE DEATH PENALTY.

THE MEDIA & GOVERNMENT SCIENTISTS WILL USE HIM AS A CASE STUDY. (HIS MIND, HIS DEVIANT BEHAVIOR & WHAT CAUSED HIM TO FLIP.)

IN FACT JAMES IS PROBABLY LAUGHING AT THE MEDIA, HIS PARENTS, THE JUDGE & HIS ATTORNEYS RIGHT NOW BECAUSE HE IS NOW FAMOUS AND GETTING OVER ON EVERYONE WITH HIS MASTER PLAN.

WHAT WAS JAMES' MASTER PLAN?

JAMES EAGAN HOLMES' MASTER PLAN WAS TO USE THIS MASSACRE AS A THESIS FOR HIS PHD STUDIES.

i.e., A SOCIAL EXPERIMENT!!!

JAMES WILL EVENTUALLY BE SENT TO A MINIMUM SECURITY COMMUNITY FOR PEOPLE WHO NEED A BREAK FROM SOCIETY.

HE WILL LATER WRITE A BEST-SELLING BOOK AND THERE WILL BE A MOVIE MADE ABOUT HIS LIFE.

IN ESSENCE JAMES EAGAN HOLMES WILL BECOME A CELEBRITY LIKE ALBERT EINSTEIN & JEFFREY DAHMER.

On Friday July 20, 2012 James Eagan Holmes formerly of California, Assassinated 12 People & Seriously Wounded 59 others in Aurora, Colorado.

Emergency Doctors are now saying that at least 9 More People will most likely DIE from their Injuries caused by James Eagan Holmes on July 20 when he SHOT them in Cold-Blood.

James will NEVER be sentenced to Death, nor will he Ever spend Life in Prison.

He will instead become a Huge CELEBRITY & earn tons of Money!


JOHN ALLEN MUHAMMAD & LEE BOYD MALVO (2 BLACK Men) Assassinated at least 10 People in the Tri-State Area of Virginia, DC & Maryland.

John Allen Muhammad, a Former U.S. Army Soldier who Served his Country for 15 Years and completed 2 Tours in Iraq, was by all accounts Seriously Mentally-Ill and probably Suffering from PTSD.

However on November 10, 2009 was Executed by the State of Virginia.
Lee Boyd Malvo is now serving LIFE in Prison.

Again Both JOHN ALLEN MUHAMMAD & LEE BOYD MALVO are BLACK.

Welcome to AmeriKKKa where there are 2 forms of JUSTICE!
A NON- JUSTICE System for WHITE People & a Harsh JUSTICE System for BLACK People!







Colorado theater shooting suspect makes first court appearance


The man accused of opening fire Friday in a packed movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, made his first court appearance Monday, giving the public its first look at the 24-year-old former doctoral candidate since his arrest.

James E. Holmes, his hair dyed various shades of red, looked downward, then straight ahead. He sat without blinking for long periods. At times, his eyes fluttered, then squeezed tight and reopened in a blank stare. Occasionally, his eyebrows arched, giving his face a mournful mien.

But the man who identified himself to police as "The Joker," dressed in a maroon jumpsuit over a white T-shirt, gave little indication that he was paying attention to the courtroom procedure that ensured he will be continue to be held without bond.

He is to be charged next Monday. Those charges are likely to include first-degree murder -- an offense that carries a possible death penalty, if he is convicted -- in the shooting deaths, given allegations over the weekend by police that there is evidence to suggest "calculation and deliberation" in the rampage.

Holmes is being held in connection with the early Friday shootings that left 12 dead and 58 wounded, and the subsequent discovery of his booby-trapped apartment, which authorities believe he rigged before leaving for the Century Aurora 16 multiplex.

Authorities have been tight-lipped about a possible motive in the case, and police spokesman Frank Fania told CNN late Sunday that Holmes has been uncooperative with investigators and requested an attorney.

Arapahoe County public defender James O'Connor has been assigned to the case. The Colorado Judicial Department declined to say whether Holmes requested a public defender. A telephone call by CNN to O'Connor's office was not immediately returned.

Holmes' court appearance will come a few hours before his family is expected to issue a statement.

Lisa Damiani, an attorney representing the family, told CNN the statement would be made at her San Diego office.

The family, which lives in San Diego, issued a statement Friday saying, "Our hearts go out to those who were involved in this tragedy and to the families and friends of those involved." It added, "We are still trying to process this information."

Over the weekend, Aurora Police Chief Daniel Oates told reporters that there was "evidence of, I think, some calculation and deliberation."

Holmes received deliveries over the past four months to his home and work addresses, which begins to explain how he may have obtained some of the materials used in the attack and those found at his apartment, Oates said.

As of late Sunday, at least 17 people remained hospitalized -- eight in critical condition -- in five area hospitals.

President Barack Obama met Sunday in Aurora with survivors and relatives of the dead, and thousands of residents gathered in the city for a prayer vigil that drew state and local officials.

"I confessed to them that words are always inadequate in these kinds of situations, but that my main task was to serve as a representative of the entire country and let them know that we are thinking about them at this moment, and will continue to think about them each and every day," Obama told reporters after the meeting at the University of Colorado Hospital.

"It reminds you that even in the darkest of days, life continues and people are strong and people bounce back and people are resilient," the president said, after describing the recovery of some victims. "Out of this darkness, a brighter day is going to come."

Though much attention has been paid to the "perpetrator of this evil act," that spotlight will fade, leaving behind just the good memories of those affected by the tragedy, he said.

Aurora is bracing for another emotional week as families begin making funeral arrangements. It was not immediately known when the coroner would release the bodies.

It also became clear that more people may have been killed if the gunman's semiautomatic rifle had not jammed.

Josh Nowlan suffered gunshot wounds but said he is happy just to be alive. "If that gun did not jam, I am full certain that I probably would not be here," he said Saturday from his hospital bed.

A law enforcement source, who spoke Sunday with CNN on condition of anonymity, said the rifle jammed because of a problem with the 100-shot magazine feeding it.

The military-style AR-15 had a separately purchased drum magazine, which can have trouble feeding bullets into the firing chamber if the gun is fired rapidly, the source said.

Investigators say the rifle was one of three guns used Friday by the suspect, along with a shotgun and a .40-caliber pistol.







Probe of shooting suspect James Holmes intensifies

A Computer, cellphone, homemade explosives and Batman mask all seized at the Colorado apartment of James Holmes could help shed light on the mind, motive and Modus Operandi of the suspected mass killer, a federal law enforcement official said Sunday.

The official, who asked not to be identified because he is not authorized to comment publicly, said the computer could aid the effort to determine how long the suspect had been allegedly planning the attack and other details of the massacre.

A maze of incendiary devices arrayed inside Holmes' apartment included 10 gallons of gasoline that was likely intended to serve as an accelerant to any fire caused by an explosion inside, the official said.

The devices included about 30 aerial shells commonly used in commercial fireworks displays.

The official said the shells had been cannibalized, reconstructed and set up in the living room, where a stream of wires connected them to a "control box" in the unit's kitchen. The box was disabled Saturday by bomb technicians using robotic devices and a controlled detonating device.

Also Sunday, the University of Colorado said it is helping authorities determine whether Holmes used his position as a graduate student to order materials for the potentially deadly booby traps.

Police said Holmes received deliveries over four months to his Aurora, Colo., apartment and the school. They haven't identified the contents. University spokeswoman Jacque Montgomery said the school is looking into those packages received at the school.
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The latest information represents more pieces to a puzzle authorities are constructing to determine what was happening inside the mind of the quiet, intellectually gifted neuroscience student suspected of morphing into a vicious killer.

Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates says Holmes, 24, has "lawyered up" and is not talking.

Was this killer mentally ill?

"It says a lot about the type of prejudice we have when we automatically go to the presumption that a clinical mental illness was the cause," says Praveen Kambam, a professor of psychiatry at the University of California-Los Angeles. "Even the surgeon general of the United States has said there's very little risk of violence or harm from a stranger who has a mental disorder.

"Not all bad behavior comes from mental illness. Sometimes it can simply be bad behavior."

In a résumé posted on Monster.com, Holmes listed himself as an "aspiring scientist" and said he was looking for a job as a laboratory technician.

The résumé, first obtained by The Press-Enterprise in Riverside, paints a picture of a brilliant young man brimming with potential: He worked as a summer intern at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla in 2006 and mapped the neurons of zebra finches and studied the flight muscles of hummingbirds while an undergraduate at the University of California-Riverside.

He also worked as a summer camp counselor to underprivileged children at a Jewish camp in Los Angeles in 2008.

In Rancho Peñasquitos, a community of picturesque hacienda-style homes surrounded by hills and canyons outside San Diego where Holmes grew up, residents have a hard time squaring the quiet teen who didn't call attention to himself with the violent image of Holmes emerging now.

Those who knew Holmes in the upscale San Diego community remember a polite young man who kept to himself and excelled academically.

"He was really talented, really smart," said Porsche Parkman, 19, who attended Westview High School with Holmes' younger sister, Chris. Holmes graduated from the school in 2006. "He was so nice and his family was always there for him. Nothing seemed wrong."

Her description of the young man seen with a ready smile in his high school yearbook photo stands in stark contrast to the 6-foot-tall gunman dressed in head-to-toe black body armor whom police say opened fire with multiple weapons in a crowded suburban Denver movie theater, killing 12 people and wounding 58.

Today, Aurora police portray Holmes as a suspect intent on killing, taking the violence even further by booby-trapping his apartment to kill the first person to enter, most likely a police officer.

"This apartment was designed to kill," Oates said. He said Holmes had a "high volume" of deliveries of materials and ammunition that could explain the aerial shells, trip wires and other explosive devices found in his apartment.

"What we're seeing here is some evidence, I think, of calculation and deliberation," Oates said Saturday. "If you think we are angry, we sure as hell are angry."

In the six months before the shooting, police said Holmes bought at least 6,000 rounds of ammunition, an AR 15 assault rifle, a Remington shotgun and two 40-caliber Glock handguns. He bought them legally, according to a federal law enforcement official who was not authorized to speak publicly.

Oates said Holmes used a rifle, shotgun and one of the handguns during the attack.

At the same time that authorities say he was buying ammunition and weapons, Holmes was in the process of dropping out of the University of Colorado's graduate neuroscience program in Aurora. He had joined the program a year ago, but by June he had withdrawn, the university said in a statement.

Dan Meyers, spokesman for the University of Colorado School of Medicine, would not say why Holmes left.

Oates said the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit is working with local police to try to determine a motive for the shooting.

Holmes seems to have little online presence. Unlike many people his age, he does not have accounts on Twitter, Facebook or other social media.

University of Colorado biology student Kaitlyn Fonzi, who was living below Holmes in a student-housing complex in northern Aurora, had seen Holmes in the building several times and remembers a student who looked like any other on the medical and academic campus across the street from their apartment building.

"You never really think anything like this is going to happen," Fonzi said after the building was evacuated when police tried to defuse the trip wires they said Holmes set up.

In Rancho Peñasquitos, the suspect's family still lives in the two-story white house with a red-tiled roof where he grew up.

Holmes, who graduated with high honors with a bachelor of science degree in neuroscience from the University of California-Riverside, was raised in a math and science household. His mother, Arlene, has been licensed as a registered nurse for more than 30 years. His father, Robert, is a mathematician who develops statistical models for financial services, specifically looking at fraud.

Theirs is a community where neighbors are friendly and know each other, said one neighbor, Rose To.

"We know the parents as good neighbors," said To, whose home is across the street. "We watch out for each other here."

Lindsay Van Leeuwen, 32, lives three doors away from the Holmes' family. She has lived there four years and said she was probably one of the newest residents in the neighborhood. She doesn't know the family well, she said, but she received a card from them when her twins were born two months ago.

"It's scary. I'm shocked that it's happened right down the street," Van Leeuwen said.

Parkman and her husband, William, 19, remember a friendly family who kept to themselves but were supportive one another.

She became friends with Holmes' sister during their freshman year at Westview, about 3 miles from where the Holmes family lived.

"Her dad was really smart. Their mom was nice, quiet. They let (their children) be who they were," Porsche Parkman said.

William Parkman marveled at how Holmes had gone from a proud example of a successful graduate of their high school to one of the most hated people in the country.

"The news reports you hear about him, it's as if people are talking about one person in San Diego and one in Colorado," he said. "Who he is now is not who he was in San Diego."

On Sunday, ABC News aired a video showing Holmes as a shy, thin teen speaking at a science camp at Miramar College in San Diego when he was 18.

His presentation is on "temporal illusion," which he defines as "an illusion that allows you to change the past."

A woman who introduces Holmes in the video says he wants to become a researcher and make scientific discoveries.

She says his dream is to own a Slurpee machine, eliciting laughter from the audience and a smile from Holmes.


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James Eagan Holmes vs John Allen Muhammad: Same Crime, Different Punishment (Execution vs Psych Ward; Videos)

Ramadan 2012 began on Friday, July 20.
HAPPY RAMADAN TO MY MUSLIM BROTHERS & SISTERS!

Who remembers John Allen Muhammad, the "DC Sniper"??

Please stay with me and you will understand why I am mentioning John Allen Muhammad in this post.

What a Coincidence that on the First day of Ramadan 2012, this Coward, James Eagan Holmes a WHITE, PhD. Student in Aurora, Colorado, Sparks a Massacre?

But is this really a Coincidence?

Listen I don't care what anyone says, I strongly believe this Dude who by Natural Standards is an Academic Genius, Carefully Planned this Tragic Event to take place on the First Day of Ramadan 2012.


Ramadan is a Muslim Holiday.

After 9-11 most Americans connect Muslims with Terrorism and Violent Behavior.

Most Americans do NOT associate Gun Violence with Terrorism, however they do think of Muslims & Terrorism as being one in the same.

Call me a "Conspiracy Theorist" if you want to but its what I believe.


I don't believe that James Eagan Holmes was just some Sad, Lonely, Anti-Social, Intellectually Brilliant WHITE Guy.

I do however believe he may have had ties with the Aurora Tea Party or some other type of WHITE Supremacist Organization.

By the way now James Eagan Holmes is being Described as a "Nice Christian Boy", just like George Zimmerman.

George Zimmerman is another Cold-Blooded Murderer.

George Zimmerman is also Half-WHITE; actually Zimmerman is Half-Hispanic & Half-White.

There are also claims coming forth of Holmes having used the Prescription Drug Vicodin prior to him Murdering 14 People & wounding 59 others.

George Zimmerman is using Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law as a Defense.

No doubt James Eagan Holmes' family will use Mental Illness or blame his actions on Vicodin.

When WHITE People or Half-WHITE People Commit Murder its because something caused them to CRACK, thus they Don't deserve Prison nor Execution.

When BLACK People Commit Murder they are just Cold-Blooded Killers who Deserve to be Executed like Dogs.

Of course Pres. Obama & the Federal Gov't won't Publicly Admit this Fact because Pres. Obama still needs some WHITE Votes to win the 2012 Election.

Its OK to Ignore what's going on in Chicago or to Insult BLACK Voters but Democrat Politicians would NOT Ever Dare Insult WHITE Voters!

Chicago's BLACK Community can be Traumatized by Gun Violence and NO One Cares!

NO Vigils! No Flags being flown at Half-Mast! NOTHING!

After all they are just Poor, BLACK People right? So Who Cares???

James Eagan Holmes was Angry but he was NOT Insane!

Holmes frequently used the Internet but erased his Web 2.0 Footprints so he could not be traced.

He was NOT Crazy!
He was NOT Lonely!
He was NOT Sad!
He was NOT Stupid!
He was NOT Poor!

James Eagan Holmes Majored in Neuro Science (Doctoral Degree Student) thus he knew exactly what he was doing.

He also knew that Friday, July 20, was the First day of Ramadan 2012.

Now due to Colorado's Lax Gun Laws & very Lenient Criminal Justice System, watch James Holmes WALK.

WALK as in he'll will play CRAZY & be sent to the Psych Ward versus receiving Life in Prison or the Death Penalty.

Has anyone noticed how in States with Large Populations of WHITE, Wealthy People like Colorado, Vermont, Maine, the Criminal Justice System Laws are very Lenient?

However in States with Large Populations of BLACK, Low Income People like North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Illinois, the Criminal Justice System Laws are very Harsh??

Just a thought.

John Allen Muhammad i.e., the “DC Sniper” Shot & Killed at least 10 People in Cold-Blood and was Executed on November 10, 2009 in Virginia.

John Allen Muhammad was a BLACK Man!

By all accounts John Allen Muhammad was Truly CRAZY!

He literally became Insane from Life’s Pressures and as a Former Soldier (U.S. Army) he also probably Suffered from PTSD, yet Muhammad was Executed like a Dog.


Please don't think that I am attempting to depict John Allen Muhammad to be some kind of a "Saint" because he wasn't.

Like James Eagan Holmes, John Allen Muhammad was also a Mass Murderer.

The Difference?

One guy was BLACK and the other guy is WHITE.

James Eagan Holmes was a LONE WOLF/ DOMESTIC TERRORIST plain & simple.

But will Holmes receive the Same Punishment for the Same Crime committed by John Allen Muhammad?

NO!!!


In America WHITE People NEVER receive the Same Punishment for committing the Same Crimes as BLACK People.

That's just the way it is. Period!

Holmes Murdered at least 14 people in Cold-Blood in Aurora, Colorado and Seriously Wounded at least 59 People.

James Eagan Holmes is a Young, Intellectually Brilliant WHITE Guy.

John Allen Muhammad was Prosecuted for his Crimes & Executed.

James Eagan Holmes will NOT be Prosecuted & he will WALK via reason of “Insanity” due to Colorado's very Lenient Criminal Justice System Laws.

Holmes will be Sentenced to a Psych Ward just like Jared Loughner.

In 2011 Jared Loughner Murdered 6 People in Cold-Blood.

Ramadan 2012 began on July 20.

On July 20, 2012 James Eagan Holmes Massacred at least 14 people in Aurora, Colorado.





James Holmes: Colorado Shooting Suspect Had Few Digital Fingerprints

Since the tragedy in Colorado, authorities, news organizations, and people around the country have been trying to find out all they could about the suspected shooter, James Holmes.

A logical place to look was online. However, it appeared, at least early on, that Holmes had very few digital footprints.

No Facebook account. No Twitter account. Not even a mention of him in an article or Google search. No physical address listing. So far ABC News has only been able to find his email address at the University of Colorado Denver. TMZ reported it was also able to dig up an old MySpace photo, though it said he apparently had no real MySpace friends.

Holmes may be different from other alleged shooters. The man arrested in the Gabrielle Giffords shooting, Jared Loughner, had a MySpace page and a YouTube account. Anders Breivik, accused of killing 77 people in Norway, published a manifesto online. Holmes, in contrast, appears to be what some call "Web dead."

While it is possible that Holmes simply didn't have much of an online identity, it seems unlikely that he had no online fingerprints at all. Some experts suggest an online identity under a pseudonym may emerge, or that Holmes, as a tech-savvy graduate student, limited himself university communications that were password-protected.

"It could be that he is using a different name online or some variation of his name or another name entirely," Eva Galperin, International Freedom of Expression Coordinator at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told ABC News. "He could have a significant online presence and we would not know about it."

Other sources, who asked not to be quoted by name, made the same point.

Many sites and social media services, like Facebook and Google Plus, have policies requiring users to go by their real names. However, if the name you use looks real and isn't flagged, you can easily get away without giving away your true identity.

There is also the possibility that Holmes worked hard to erase his identity online, but experts think that's unlikely.

"It is very hard to have no digital footprint right now," Michael Fertik, the CEO and founder of Reputation.com, told ABC News. "What my company stands for is creating the digital footprint you want."

Fertik said it would be very hard for Holmes to have left no online or digital traces over recent years. "It would be very unusual for a 24-year-old to have nothing on the Internet. My guess is that we don't know what name he was using online."

A service like Reputation.com or Removeyourname.com would help clear some of the history, but not all of it, Fertik said.

James Holmes is a common name, which complicates things. In the hours after Holmes was named as the suspect, people flocked to Facebook and Twitter to learn more about Holmes. Another James Holmes living in Littleton, Colorado had his Facebook page flooded with comments.

"I appreciate the fact that you are trying to become better-informed about the occurrences last night in Aurora, but you have been somewhat mislead, in that I am not the man who did it," the other James Holmes wrote on his Facebook wall. "I am not a 24-year-old gun-slinging killer from Aurora, I am a 22-year old book-slinging mass eater from Littleton." He signed the message "Regards, A different guy named James Holmes."

Whether he has a common name or not, James Holmes does have a background. It may just not be one easily found through a computer.

"Generally the way intelligence surfaces is by looking at the person's social networks -- not Facebook or Google Plus -- but looking at their friends or real-life contacts," Eva Galperin said.






John Allen Muhammad Biography


Born John Allen Williams on December 31, 1960, in Louisiana, John Allen Muhammad became an infamous figure in American culture as part of a sniper team, with Lee Boyd Malvo, that terrorized the Washington, DC, area for several weeks in October 2002. Making a sniper nest out of the trunk of his car, he and Malvo killed 10 people and injured 3. Muhammad was executed in November 2009.

Mass murderer. Born John Allen Williams on December 31, 1960, in Louisiana. John Allen Muhammad became an infamous figure American culture as part of a sniper team that terrorized the Washington, D.C. area for several weeks in October 2002. He was raised by an aunt in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, after his mother died when he was 4.

After high school, Muhammad got married to Carol Kaglear and joined the Louisiana Army National Guard. They had a son named Lindbergh. At first, his military career seemed promising. He was described as personable and outgoing by one of his commanders, but by the early 1980s cracks were beginning to show in his faade. He got into trouble twice—once for failing to report for duty and another time for hitting an officer.

Muhammad changed his life around in 1985. He separated from his wife, converted to Islam, and joined the U.S. Army. He was stationed in Washington State and later married Mildred Green. The couple had three children. The army seemed to be a good fit for Muhammad, at least for a time. He became a skilled marksman and served in Germany and the Middle East during the Gulf War.

Becoming restless, Muhammad left the military in 1994. He tried to start his own business twice, first with an auto mechanic shop and then a karate school, but both ventures failed. In 1999, his second wife Mildred filed for divorce, and the next year she got a restraining order against Muhammad because the threats he made against her.

Shortly after the order was issued, Muhammad fled with the couple's three children. He took them to Antigua. It believed that this is also where met his future accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo. Muhammad later returned to the United States settling in Bellingham, Washington, with his children. Soon, however, police officers found him and returned the children to their mother's custody. She moved with them to Maryland.

Enraged over the loss of his children, Muhammad began to fixate on Malvo who had moved to Bellingham with his mother, Una James, that October. They together lived in a homeless shelter and developed a disturbing father-son dynamic. Muhammad seemed to control every aspect of Malvo's life, imposing an exercise program and a special diet, one that reportedly consisted of honey and crackers at one point.

Malvo and James were taken into custody by immigration officials in December 2001 for being in the country illegally. But they were released while waiting for a hearing, and Muhammad was soon reunited with Malvo.

He began to teach Malvo how to use a gun, and they used a tree stump

in a friend's yard for target practice.

By the fall of 2002, Muhammad and Malvo had moved on from tree stumps to real-life victims. They were involved in a liquor store shooting in Alabama before beginning their assault on the Washington, D.C. area in October. Muhammad's ex-wife Mildred and his three children lived in nearby Maryland and there were reports that Muhammad stalked the family around the time of sniper attacks.

A skilled mechanic, Muhammad put his talents to evil use,

making a sniper nest out of the trunk of his car. He and Malvo worked as team in the shooting with one man firing the rifle while the other watched the victims. They often targeted people doing simple, everyday tasks, such as pumping their gas or leaving a store. In total, they killed 10 people and injured three others in the D.C. area.

After several killings, Muhammad and Malvo began to taunt the police. They left a note on a tarot card that read: "Mister policeman, I am God" after one shooting. The police were stumped as there seemed to be no motive or pattern to the attacks. Then the snipers demanded $10 million to stop shooting. But the real break in the case came from phone calls to a tip line and to two priests from someone claiming to be the sniper. He pointed them in the direction of an earlier Alabama shooting. At the scene of that crime, Malvo had dropped a brochure, which had one of his fingerprints on it. That fingerprint was matched on file with the immigration records, giving the authorities their first suspect.

On October 24, more than 20 days after the rampage began, the authorities surrounded the vehicle in which Muhammad and Malvo. They were taken into custody and arrested. Since they committed their crimes in several states, the authorities had to decide where the pair should be tried first. Muhammad and Malvo had separate trials.

In his defense, his lawyers pointed to Malvo as the sole triggerman. Still a 2003 jury for the murder of Dean Harold Meyers recommended that he be sentenced to death. And he was convicted on six counts of murder in another trial in Maryland in 2006. Malvo testified against Muhammad during this trial, saying that Muhammad had pulled the trigger on the first six shootings.

Muhammad served his sentence at Sussex I State Prison in Virginia, until his death by lethal injection on November 10, 2009.


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Marvin Williams: Mentally Retarded BLACK Inmate On NC's Death Row

Man could escape execution due to NC law


A man convicted of murder in Wayne County more than 20 years ago could get off death row Thursday because of a North Carolina law that says mentally retarded defendants can't be executed.

If a Wayne County Superior Court judge declares Marvin Williams mentally retarded, he would be the 17th death row inmate to escape execution since the law passed in 2001.

Williams killed Theron Price, a World War II veteran and security guard at Dewey Brothers in Goldsboro, where both men worked, during a robbery in 1989. Price died of blunt head trauma.

The legal battle became an emotional one Monday as Price's family sat on one side of the courtroom, hoping for what they see as justice, and Williams' family sat on the other side, hoping that his life will be spared.

Price's family and others are concerned that many judges are rubber-stamping the issue, simply letting people off death row. Attorneys who defend death row inmates say that's not the case.




Williams, 50, sat quietly in the courtroom with his mother behind him as attorneys debated whether he fits the definition of mental retardation.

Defense attorneys acknowledged that mental health experts and advocates prefer to use the term "intellectual disability," rather than "mental retardation." However, that is how North Carolina law words it.

"(Williams) meets both criteria of the statute, that he was mentally retarded at the time of the crime, and therefore, the death sentence that was previously entered should be vacated," said defense attorney Glenn Barfield.

Under North Carolina law, a judge can declare a person mentally retarded if he or she scores 70 or below on an IQ test and shows poor basic life skills before the age of 18.

Those determinations are up to the discretion of judges and what weight they give to IQ tests. Williams has taken multiple tests and has scored above and below 70.

Wayne County District Attorney Branny Vickory argued that Williams knew exactly what he was doing when he repeatedly hit Price over the head, dragged his body into a nearby shed and tried to get into the company's safe with a blow torch.

"It might not have shown (he was) a rocket scientist, but I would contend to you that it didn't necessarily show someone who is mentally retarded, either," Vickory said.

The victim's nephew, Jerry Price, spoke at Monday's hearing and asked the judge not to confuse mental retardation with "cold-hearted meanness and laziness and a total disregard for human life."

"Putting someone to death is a very serious issue. There were laws in place in 1989 when Marvin Williams committed this murder. He violated those laws. A jury of his peers convicted him of his crime," Jerry Price said. "There has never been any doubt that he murdered my uncle. To date, he has shown no remorse whatsoever."

Ken Rose, an attorney with the Death Penalty Litigation Center in Durham, says that inmates were removed from death row in about half of the cases where they claimed mental retardation in the past decade.

None of the 16 people taken off death row under the mental retardation statute have been released from prison. The law also applies to other states, since the U.S. Supreme Court made a decision, after North Carolina's law passed, banning the execution of people with mental retardation.





Judge rejects delays as first hearing opens under N.C.'s Racial Justice Act

Change is coming to North Carolina through a new law that lets death row prisoners challenge their sentences if race was a significant factor at sentencing, a defense attorney said Monday of the first case involving the state's Racial Justice Act.

The hearing involving death row prisoner Marcus Robinson opened Monday afternoon in Cumberland County Superior Court after Judge Greg Weeks handled motions earlier in the day and turned down prosecutors' request for extra time.

They wanted a break of eight weeks to finish a statewide survey of prosecutors about their capital cases because not all district attorneys have responded to their requests for help.

Weeks refused, saying he had continued the case in September and November. "The fault in the incomplete study ... is in the prosecutors who have not complied with your request to do what you asked them to do," the judge said.

"It has been a long time coming, but finally change is coming," defense attorney James Ferguson of Charlotte told the judge, who will decide the case without a jury.

In 2009, the Legislature approved the act, which allows death row prisoners and defendants facing the death penalty to use statistics and other evidence to show racial bias played a significant role in either their sentences or prosecutors' decision to pursue the death penalty.

The law says that the prisoner's sentence is reduced to life in prison without parole if the claim is successful.

This hearing, expected to last about two weeks, addresses Robinson's claim that race was a factor in prosecutors' decisions to reject potential jurors who were black. Robinson also claims that race was a factor in the prosecutors' decisions to seek the death penalty against accused murderers and that the victims' race was a factor in whether juries issued death sentences.

Robinson is black. His victim, 17-year-old Erik Tornblom who was killed in a robbery in 1991, was white. A co-defendant, Roderick Williams, is serving a life sentence.

Ferguson showed a statewide map of North Carolina's prosecutorial districts at he said showed race was significant factor in prosecutors' decisions to use peremptory challenges to eliminate black jurors in almost every district.

Black jurors were at least 1.2 times more likely to be rejected than non-white jurors in counties that had applicable death row cases, he said. The range went to more than 3.1 percent, he said, basing his numbers on a study by researchers at Michigan State University.

The study by two law professors also showed that of almost 160 people on death row at the time of the study, 31 had all-white juries and 38 had only one person of color.

"This case is important because it provides an opportunity for all of us to recognize that race far too often has been a significant factor in jury selection in capital cases," Ferguson said.

One of the researchers, Barbara O'Brien, was the first witness, testifying about the methodology of the study.

During a break, Tornblom's stepmother said it was Robinson who brought race into the case because he said he was looking for a white person to target. "The racial part was on his side," said Patricia Tornblom of Hope Mills.

Tornblom gave Robinson and Williams Jr. a ride from a Fayetteville convenience store. Tornblom was forced to drive to a field where he was shot with a sawed-off shotgun.

Robinson is attending the hearing with restraints after Weeks ruled Monday that he should be unshackled in the courtroom. Members of Robinson's family, including his mother, also were in the courtroom.





NC judge weighs death row inmate Marcus Robinson's racial claims


The first Appeal under North Carolina's Racial Justice Act, which allows death row prisoners a chance to argue that race was a significant factor in their case, went before a judge in Fayetteville Monday.

Marcus Robinson was sentenced to death in Cumberland County for the 1991 murder of Erik Tornblom, but his attorneys say race was a factor in jury selection.

Superior Court Judge Greg Weeks has set up to two weeks aside to hear Robinson's case.

Prosecutors filed a motion Monday to delay the hearing so they could have more time to prepare, but Weeks denied the motion, saying the case will move forward.

Defense attorneys then filed a motion to ban any gruesome crime scene photos from being shown in court.

Death penalty opponents say the prosecutors who won Robinson's conviction in 1994 dismissed qualified black jurors more than three times the rate of white jurors.

Almost all of the 157 inmates on North Carolina's death row have filed appeals under the two-year-old law. Winning an appeal under the law commutes a death sentence to one of life in prison without the possibility of parole.

It was unclear in the fall if Weeks would be allowed to preside over the case after prosecutors attempted to call him as a witness. They said it would help refute the statistics and evidence showing racial bias during jury selection.

Robinson's lawyers believe it was a power play prosecutors used to try and remove Weeks, who is black, from the case.

In November, Superior Court Judge Quentin Sumner ruled that prosecutors failed to show that Weeks was a necessary witness for their case, quashing a subpoena to have him testify.

Gov. Bev Perdue vetoed a bill in December that would have essentially repealed the Racial Justice Act, saying it is essential the legal process isn't tarnished by prejudice.

Perdue signed the Racial Justice Act into law shortly after taking office in 2009. North Carolina and Kentucky are the only states in the country with these types of laws.


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Sakineh Mohammadie Ashtiani To Be Stoned In Iran For Adultery

Iranian Mother Of Two To Be Stoned To Death



An Iranian Human Rights Activist warns Sakineh Mohammadie Ashtiani, a mother of two, could be stoned to death at any moment under the terms of a death sentence handed down by Iranian authorities.

Only an international campaign designed to pressure the regime in Tehran can save her life, according to Mina Ahadi, head of the International Committee Against Stoning and the Death Penalty.

"Legally it's all over," Ahadi said Sunday. "It's a done deal. Sakineh can be stoned at any minute."

"That is why we have decided to start a very broad, international public movement. Only that can help."

Ashtiani, 42, will be buried up to her chest, according to an Amnesty International report citing the Iranian penal code. The stones that will be hurled at her will be large enough to cause pain but not so large as to kill her immediately.

Ashtiani, who is from the northern city of Tabriz, was convicted of adultery in 2006.

She was forced to confess after being subjected to 99 lashes, human rights lawyer Mohammad Mostafaei said Thursday in a telephone interview from Tehran.

She later retracted that confession and has denied wrongdoing. Her conviction was based not on evidence but on the determination of three out of five judges, Mostafaei said. She has asked forgiveness from the court but the judges refused to grant clemency.

Iran's supreme court upheld the conviction in 2007.

Mostafaei believes a language barrier prevented his client from fully comprehending court proceedings. Ashtiani is of Azerbaijani descent and speaks Turkish, not Farsi.

The circumstances of Ashtiani's case make it not an exception but the rule in Iran, according to Amnesty International, which tracks death penalty cases around the world.

"The majority of those sentenced to death by stoning are women, who suffer disproportionately from such punishment," the human rights group said in a 2008 report.

On Wednesday, Amnesty made a new call to the Iranian government to immediately halt all executions and commute all death sentences. The group has recorded 126 executions in Iran from the start of this year to June 6.

"The organization is also urging the authorities to review and repeal death penalty laws, to disclose full details of all death sentences and executions and to join the growing international trend towards abolition," the statement said.

Ahadi, who fled Iran in the early 1980s, told CNN that pressure from Amnesty and other organizations and individuals is likely the only way to save Ashtiani.

"Experience shows (that) ... when the pressure gets very high, the Islamic government starts to say something different," she said.

In Washington, the State Department has criticized the scheduled stoning, saying it raised serious concerns about human rights violations by the Iranian government.

"We have grave concerns that the punishment does not fit the alleged crime, " Assistant Secretary of State P.J. Crowley said Thursday. "For a modern society such as Iran, we think this raises significant human rights concerns."

Calling Iran's judicial system "disproportionate" in its treatment of women, Crowley said, "From the United States' standpoint, we don't think putting women to death for adultery is an appropriate punishment."

Human rights activists have been pushing the Islamic government to abolish stoning, arguing that women are not treated equally before the law in Iran and are especially vulnerable in the judicial system. A woman's testimony is worth half that of a man, they say.

Article 74 of the Iranian penal code requires at least four witnesses -- four men or three men and two women -- for an adulterer to receive a stoning sentence, said Ahadi, of the International Committee Against Stoning. But there were no witnesses in Ashtiani's case. Often, said Ahadi, husbands turn wives in to get out of a marriage.

Mostafaei said he could not understand how such a savage method of death could exist in the year 2010 or how an innocent woman could be taken from her son and daughter, who have written to the court pleading for their mother's life.

The public won't be allowed to witness the stoning, Mostafaei said, for fear of condemnation of such a brutal method. He is hoping there won't be an execution.

Mostafaei, who himself did jail time in the aftermath of the disputed presidential elections in June 2009, said he realizes the risk of speaking out for Ashtiani, for fighting for human rights. But he doesn't let that deter him.

He last saw Ashtiani five months ago behind bars in Tabriz. Since then, he said, he has been searching for a way to save her from the stones.


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Taliban Executes 7-Yr-Old Boy Suspected Of Spying

Taliban Hangs 7-year-Old Boy Accused Of Being A Spy



Twisted Taliban militants took terror to a new low by accusing a 7-year-old boy of spying - and hanging him high.

That outrage drew immediate condemnation from the Afghan president, who called the execution a "crime against humanity."

"I don't think there's a crime bigger than that, that even the most inhuman forces on earth can commit," Hamid Karzai said Thursday. "A 7-year-old boy cannot be a spy. A 7-year-old boy cannot be anything but a 7-year-old boy

The execution happened Tuesday in the embattled Helmand province, said Dawoud Ahmadi, a spokesman for the provincial governor.

"The innocent boy was not a spy, but he may have informed the police or soldiers about planted explosives," Ahmadi told Central Asia Today.

"If this is true, it is an absolutely horrific crime," added British Prime Minister David Cameron, while on a stop in Kabul. "I think it says more about the Taliban than any book, than any article, than any speech could ever say."

The victim was reportedly the grandson of a tribal elder.

The Taliban has targeted tribal leaders who have supported the Karzai government or took part in U.S. directed reconstruction programs.

Hanging is a favorite Taliban terror method for getting rid of enemies - and sending a message to other would-be opponents.

Nor is this the first time the Taliban has killed kids. Three years ago, they strung up a 70-year-old woman and a child in the Musa Qala district on trumped up spying charges, Ahmadi said.

As news of the hanging unfolded, the war-torn country was hit with further tragedy as a suicide bomber hit a wedding party, killing at least 40 and severely wounding more than 70 people.

Several children were among the dead and wounded. Bits of flesh and severed limbs covered the site.

A Taliban spokesman denied responsibility for the deadly attack.

The governor of the province rejected the denial.

"The Taliban are doing two things at once," Gov. Tooryalai Wesa said.

"On one side they target people who are in favor of the government, then at the same time they don't want people to know their real face."

Violence is on the rise in June as the U.S. prepares a major summertime operation to cleanse the region of Taliban commanders.

At least 17 U.S. service members have been killed in the past four days, including four Americans who died Wednesday when insurgents in Helmand province's Sangin district - one of the most volatile in the country and where the 7-year-old boy was hanged - shot down a NATO helicopter.


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DC Beltway Sniper Is Dead!! His Execution Was Carried Out Tonight In Virginia

Stay of execution refused for D.C. sniper. Virginia's governor cleared the way for convicted D.C. sniper John Allen Muhammad's execution. NBC's Brian Williams reports

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D.C.-area sniper executed in Virginia


John Allen Muhammad was executed Tuesday night for the sniper attacks in 2002 that left 10 dead and spread such fear people were afraid to go shopping, cut grass or pump gas.

The three-week killing spree in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C., was carried out with a teenage accomplice who is serving life in prison without parole. Muhammad, 48, died by injection at 9:11 p.m. EST after he exhausted his court appeals and Gov. Tim Kaine denied clemency.

Muhammad's attorneys earlier had asked Kaine to commute his sentence to life in prison because they said he was severely mentally ill.

"I think crimes that are this horrible, you just can't understand them, you can't explain them," said Kaine, a Democrat known for carefully considering death penalty cases. "They completely dwarf your ability to look into the life of a person who would do something like this and understand why."

Muhammad had been sentenced to death for killing Dean Harold Meyers at a gas station in northern Virginia. He and his accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, also were suspected of fatal shootings in Alabama, Arizona, Louisiana and Washington state.

Muhammad was offered a choice for his last meal, which he accepted and requested that details not be released to the public, NBC News reported.

Prosecutors chose to put Muhammad and Malvo on trial in Virginia first because of the state's willingness to execute killers. He and Malvo were also convicted of six other murders in Maryland and both were sentenced to six life terms.

Death ruled out for Malvo

The death penalty was later ruled out for Malvo because the U.S. Supreme Court barred the execution of juveniles, who was 17 during the killing spree.

The motive for the shootings in the nation's capital region remains murky. Malvo said Muhammad wanted to use the plot to extort $10 million from the government to set up a camp in Canada where homeless children would be trained as terrorists. But Muhammad's ex-wife has said she believes the attacks were a smoke screen for his plan to kill her and regain custody of their three children.

Muhammad has never testified or explained why he directed the attacks that terrorized the Washington region, with victims gunned down while doing everyday chores. People stayed indoors, and those who had to go outside weaved as they walked or bobbed their heads to make themselves less of a target.

The terror ended Oct. 24, 2002, when police captured Muhammad and Malvo as they slept at a Maryland rest stop in a car they had outfitted so a shooter could hide in the trunk and fire through a hole in the body of the vehicle.

Muhammad had been in and out of the military since he graduated from high school in Louisiana and entered the National Guard. A convert to Islam, John Allen Williams would later change his name to Muhammad.

He joined the Army in 1985 and trained in Washington state as a combat engineer. He did not take special sniper training but earned an expert rating in the M-16 rifle — the military cousin of the .223-caliber Bushmaster rifle used in the sniper shootings.

Life full of failures

However, his life was full of failure. He was twice divorced, and after serving in the first Iraq war, he could never find financial stability.

He opened a karate school but it didn't last; neither did his car repair shop. The man who looked for self-discipline in exercise and Islam found himself living in a homeless shelter in 2001 and a few months later was accused of shoplifting food.

Muhammad met with family members in the hours before his execution but did not have a spiritual adviser, Virginia Department of Corrections spokesman Larry Traylor said. One of Muhammad's attorneys, J. Wyndal Gordon, described the convicted killer as fearless and insisted he was innocent.

"He is absolutely unafraid and he will die with dignity — dignity to the point of defiance," Gordon said.

The families of those killed had prepared for execution day.

Cheryll Witz was one of several victims' relatives who planned to watch the execution. Malvo confessed that, at Muhammad's direction, he shot her father, Jerry Taylor, on a Tucson, Arizona, golf course in March 2002.

"He basically watched my dad breathe his last breath," Witz said. "Why shouldn't I watch his last breath?"

Death penalty opponents had planned vigils across the state, and some were headed for Jarratt, about an hour south of Richmond, for the execution at Greensville Correctional Center.

Beth Panilaitis, executive director of Virginians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, said those who planned to protest understand the fear that gripped the community, and the nation, during the attacks.

"The greater metro area and the citizens of Virginia have been safe from this crime for seven years," Panilaitis said. "Incarceration has worked and life without the possibility of parole has and will continue to keep the people of Virginia safe."

Vigils planned across the state

Kaine, Virginia's first Roman Catholic governor, has openly expressed his faith-based opposition to capital punishment, but promised as a candidate in 2005 that he would carry out Virginia's death penalty law despite his beliefs.

In September, Kaine delayed the October execution of a former Army intelligence worker from Maryland convicted of killing a northern Virginia couple, saying he needed more time to consider the case. That execution is scheduled for next week.



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DC Sniper Dies Tonight, Clemency Denied...He Wasn't Crazy Just Angry

Stay of execution refused for DC sniper. Virginia's governor cleared the way for convicted DC sniper John Allen Muhammad's execution. NBC's Brian Williams reports

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D.C.-area sniper set to be executed tonight


Gov. Tim Kaine denied clemency Tuesday for sniper John Allen Muhammad, clearing the way for him to be executed for the attacks that terrorized the nation's capital region for three weeks in 2002.

Muhammad is set to die by injection Tuesday night at Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt. His attorneys had asked Kaine to commute his sentence to life in prison because they say he is mentally ill. The U.S. Supreme Court turned down his final appeal.

"I find no compelling reason to set aside the sentence that was recommended by the jury and then imposed and affirmed by the courts," Kaine, who is known for carefully considering death penalty cases, said in a statement. "Accordingly, I decline to intervene."

Muhammad was sentenced to death for killing Dean Harold Meyers at a Manassas gas station during a three-week spree that left 10 dead across Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C.

He and his teenage accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, also were suspected of fatal shootings in other states, including Louisiana, Alabama and Arizona.

Muhammad was offered a choice for his last meal, which he accepted and requested that details not be released to the public, NBC News reported.

Murky motives

The motive for the shootings remains murky. Malvo said Muhammad wanted to use the plot to extort $10 million from the government to set up a camp in Canada where homeless children would be trained as terrorists. But Muhammad's ex-wife has said she believes the attacks were a smoke screen for his plan to kill her and regain custody of their three children.

For the families of those killed, the day is a long time coming.

Cheryll Witz is one of several victims' relatives who were going to watch the execution. Malvo confessed that, at Muhammad's direction, he shot her father, Jerry Taylor, on a Tucson, Ariz., golf course in March 2002.

"He basically watched my dad breathe his last breath," she said. "Why shouldn't I watch his last breath?"

Terror spreads across region

The shootings terrorized the Washington region, with victims gunned down while doing everyday chores like shopping or pumping gas. People stayed indoors. Those who had to go outside weaved as they walked or bobbed their heads to make themselves less of a target.

The terror ended on Oct. 24, 2002, when police captured Muhammad and Malvo as they slept at a Maryland rest stop in a car they had outfitted so a shooter could hide in the trunk and fire through a hole in the body of the vehicle. Malvo is serving a life sentence in Virginia.

Death penalty opponents planned vigils across the state, and some were headed for Jarratt, about an hour south of Richmond, for the execution.

Beth Panilaitis, executive director of Virginians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, said those who planned to protest understand the fear that gripped the community, and the nation, during the attacks.

"The greater metro area and the citizens of Virginia have been safe from this crime for seven years," Panilaitis said. "Incarceration has worked and life without the possibility of parole has and will continue to keep the people of Virginia safe."



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