Crime News

Nearly a week after Nidal Hasan allegedly went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, questions swirl around reports of the Army psychiatrist's past communication with a radical Muslim imam. Did authorities, who had been aware of Hasan's contact with Anwar al-Awlaki, miss an opportunity to head off the deadly killing spree?

A prison official in southern Virginia says John Allen Muhammad, the sniper who terrorized the Washington, D.C., area with a young accomplice in 2002, seemed "quiet and relaxed" before being put to death by lethal injection Tuesday night.

As the hour of John Allen Muhammad's execution draws near, the families of his victims reflect on what they have lost -- and on the elusive idea of closure. Bob Meyers, whose brother Dean was among those slain by the sniper, will attend the execution, but he denies any sense of victory: "I feel a responsibility to go out of loyalty to my brother, that our family be represented."

Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine denies the clemency request of John Allen Muhammad, the mastermind behind the sniper attacks that gripped the nation's capital with fear for three weeks in 2002. Muhammad is scheduled to die by lethal injection tonight at a Virginia prison.