John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo terrorized the Beltway for weeks Jessica Sager is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has previously appeared in ...

U.S. Attorney Paul McNulty of Virginia said if a firearm is used to carry out violence in an extortion scheme, the crime is punishable by the federal death penalty. Police believe the sniper left a ...

The panel deliberated for about 61/2 hours before convicting Muhammad of two counts of capital murder. One accused him of taking part in multiple murders, the other -- the result of a post-Sept. 11 ...

John Allen Muhammad is scheduled to die by lethal injection today at the Greensville Correctional Facility for the deaths of at least ten people during a three-week killing spree in October 2002.

RICHMOND, Va. The Virginia Supreme Court on Friday upheld sniper John Allen Muhammad's murder convictions and death penalty for carrying out what it called a "cruel scheme of terror" that left 10 ...

Prosecutors must give John Allen Muhammad's attorneys statements from as many as 13 witnesses who knew the sniper suspect that might be favorable to his defense, a judge ruled yesterday. The key issue ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) -- Sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad won the right to act as his own lawyer Monday in a surprise, last-minute request at his murder trial, then broke a year of stony silence ...

John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo terrorized the population when they went on a serial shooting spree in October 2002. Muhammad, then 41, and Malvo, then 17, shot and killed 10 people and injured ...