They got my man Muhammad.

Pardon if I offend anyone. I am highly disturbed not only that John Allen Muhammad was executed by lethal injection on Tuesday night, but that people are celebrating.

Capital punishment is, in itself, a perverse and hypocritical route of exacting justice. Does "an eye for an eye" really give the victims' families a sense of peace? Does killing someone to prove that killing is wrong make sense? Is it justified or moral in any way?

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au contraire, Mr. Muhammad (no Ali Shaheed) had participated in a series of shootings that could not be logically linked. His acts had multiple police chiefs losing sleep, and I believe the FBI got on this at the end (correct me if i'm wrong). I'm against capital punishment, but I believe the the punishments you receive correlate with the crimes you commit. A killer with remorse and evident REASONING behind murder(s) would be treated with a lot more sense than someone without the reasoning. There is no understandable reason to shoot random people with no link all across the DMV, INCLUDING a teenage boy at a middle school...and be Black. This is why his defense team tried to argue that he wanted to kill his ex-wife and regain custody of his children. That could've been a reason to get life in jail over death but what he did defied any type of twisted logic.

Lee Malvo, who was his cooperative assailant, received life in jail without parole for the role he played in the mass murders. Why? He cooperated and told police about Muhammad's plan (which included killing 6 white people a day for a whole month), he showed regret, and he also was about 17 at the time of the sniping spree. John Allen Muhammad? He lost as soon as he killed someone in Virginia. Capital punishment isn't even a question in that state.

I don't agree with niggas celebrating and making light of legal murder, but his actions warranted the penalty. Maybe if Maryland or D.C. had convicted him first, he would be living right now. But still...

he fucked up something serious.