On this date, April
24, 1996, The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 were signed
into law. I will name eight terrorists who were executed for terrorism
activities. I will put them in order of the dates they were terminated from the
face of the earth, starting with the earliest. I hope that we can put all
terrorists to death for they have caused the death of many innocent lives.
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| Timothy McVeigh |
1. Timothy McVeigh A.K.A Timothy James "Tim"
McVeigh (April 23, 1968 –
June 11, 2001) was an American terrorist who detonated a truck bomb in front of
the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995.
Commonly referred to as the Oklahoma City Bombing, the attack killed
168 people and injured over 800. It was the deadliest act of terrorism within
the United States prior to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. As of
2013, the bombing remains the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in United
States history. McVeigh, a militia movement sympathizer and Persian Gulf War
veteran, sought revenge against the federal government for their handling of
the Waco Siege, which ended in the deaths of 76 people exactly two years prior
to the bombing, as well as for the Ruby Ridge incident in 1992. McVeigh hoped
to inspire a revolt against what he considered to be a tyrannical federal
government. He was convicted of eleven federal offenses and sentenced to death.
His execution took place on June 11, 2001 at the Federal Correctional Complex
in Terre Haute, Indiana. Terry Nichols and Michael Fortier were also convicted
as conspirators in the plot.
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2 to 4. Amrozi A.K.A the Smiling Assassin was
executed together with Imam Samudra and Ali Ghufron Mukhlas by firing squad in Nusa
Kambangan Island, Indonesia. They were involved in the 2002
Bail Bombings.
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John Allen Muhammad
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5. The D.C. Sniper, John Allen Muhammad was executed by lethal injection at
Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Virginia on November 10, 2009. He
went on a spree killing and had killed more than 10 people.
John Allen Muhammad (December 31, 1960 - November
10, 2009) was a convicted murderer from the United States. He, along with his
seventeen-year-old partner, Lee Boyd Malvo, carried out the 2002 Beltway sniper
attacks, killing at least 10 people. Muhammad and Malvo were arrested in
connection with the attacks on October 24, 2002, following tips from alert
citizens. Although the pairing's actions were classified as psychopathy
attributable to serial killer characteristics by the media, whether or not
their psychopathy meets this classification or that of a spree killer is
debated by researchers.
Born as John Allen Williams, Muhammad joined the
Nation of Islam in 1987 and later changed his surname to Muhammad. At
Muhammad's trial, the prosecutor claimed that the rampage was part of a plot to
kill his ex-wife and regain custody of his children, but the judge ruled that
there was insufficient evidence to support this argument. His trial for one of
the murders (the murder of Dean Harold Meyers in Prince William County,
Virginia) began in October 2003, and the following month he was found guilty of
capital murder. Four months later he was sentenced to death. While awaiting
execution in Virginia, in August 2005, he was extradited to Maryland to face
some of the charges there, for which he was convicted of six counts of
first-degree murder on May 30, 2006.
Upon completion of the trial activity in Maryland,
he was returned to Virginia's death row pending an agreement with another state
or the District of Columbia seeking to try him. He was not tried on additional
charges in other Virginia jurisdictions, and faced potential trials in three
other states and the District of Columbia involving other deaths and serious woundings.
All appeals of his conviction for killing Dean Harold Meyers had been made and
rejected. Appeals for Muhammad's other trials remained pending at the time of
his execution.
Muhammad was executed by lethal injection on
November 10, 2009, at 9:06 pm EST at Greensville Correctional Center in
Jarratt, Virginia, and was pronounced dead at 9:11 pm EST. Muhammad declined to
make a final statement.
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| Hamam El-Kamouny |
6. Hamam El-Kamouny
was executed by hanging in Egypt on a Monday morning (October 10, 2011).
He was put to death for the January 7, 2010 Nag Hammadi massacre where he shot
dead six Christians and a Muslim.
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Ajmal Kasab
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7. Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab (Punjabi/Urdu: محمد
اجمل امیر قصاب;
13 July 1987 – 21 November 2012) was a Pakistani militant and a member of
the Lashkar-e-Taiba Islamist group, through which he took part in the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks in India. Kasab
was the only attacker captured alive by police.
Kasab
was born in Faridkot, Pakistan to a family belonging to the Qassab community.
He left his home in 2005, engaging in petty crime and armed robbery with a
friend. In late 2007, he and his friend encountered members of Jama'at-ud-Da'wah,
the political wing of Lashkar-e-Taiba, distributing pamphlets, and were
persuaded to join.
On
3 May 2010, Kasab was found guilty of 80 offences, including murder, waging war
against India, possessing explosives, and other charges. On 6 May 2010, the
same trial court sentenced him to death on four counts and to a life sentence
on five counts. Kasab's death sentence was upheld by the Bombay High Court on
21 February 2011. The verdict was upheld by the Supreme Court of India on 29
August 2012. Kasab was hanged on 21 November 2012 at 7:30 a.m. and buried at Yerwada
Jail in Pune.
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Afzal
Guru
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8. Mohammad Afzal Guru (1969 - 9 February 2013), an Indian national, was
convicted by Indian court for the December 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament, and sentenced to death by a special Prevention of Terrorism Act
Court in 2002. The Delhi High Court confirmed the judgment in 2003 and his
appeal was rejected by the Supreme Court of India in 2005. The Supreme Court
did not find any evidence as to his membership to any terrorist organisation
but stated that the circumstances clearly established that Guru was associated
with the deceased terrorists in almost every act done by them in order to
achieve the objective of attacking the Parliament and there was sufficient and
satisfactory circumstantial evidence to establish that he was a partner in the
conspiracy. The sentence was scheduled to be carried out on 20 October 2006,
but Guru was given a stay of execution after protests in Jammu and Kashmir and
remained on death row. On 3 February 2013, his mercy petition was rejected by
the President of India, Pranab Mukherjee. He was secretly hanged at Delhi's
Tihar Jail around 08:00 am on 9 February 2013 and afterward buried inside
jail grounds in Operation Three Star. His family was not informed prior to
execution and his dead body was later denied to his family, while his execution
resulted in violent protests across the Kashmir region.
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