original story posted November 4, 2009
The day of reckoning is slowly approaching for convicted John Allen Muhammad, 48, as he is scheduled to be executed November 10.
On October 27, a Virginia correction official announced that Muhammad would die by way of lethal injection, but now there's a chance that it might not happen and that he might just have to do life in prison.
After asking for clemency last month from Gov. Timothy M. Kaine, attorneys have now made the motion to file for an appeal to remove the death penalty Tuesday.
Muhammad is known publicly as the Beltway sniper, a.k.a the D.C. Sniper, who was responsible for the killing of
