This will be a Good day that John Allen Muhammad will die at 9:00. The only wish i have is that he could be let free in a Jungle and hunted like he hunted these people In VA and DC. He needs to feel the Terror that he made others feel when he did what he did. JOHN ALLEN MUHAMMAD I HOPE YOU GO TO HELL AND BURN BURN BURN
Jarratt, Virginia (CNN) -- -- Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine denieda last-minute clemency request Tuesday for John Allen Muhammad, the master mind behind the Washington-area sniper attacks of 2002 that terrorized the nation's capital.
The denial leaves Muhammad, 48, scheduled to die at 9 p.m. Tuesday by lethal injection at a state prison near Jarratt, Virginia.
"It's a waiting game," Larry Traylor, director of communications for the Virginia Department of Corrections, told reporters standing in the rain outside the Greensville Correctional Center.
During three weeks in October 2002, Muhammad and accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo, then 17,killed 10 people and wounded three, while taunting police with written messages and phoned-in threats and demands.
"Having carefully reviewed the petition for clemency and judicial opinions regarding thiscase, I find no compelling reason to set a side the sentence that was recommended by the jury and then imposed and affirmed by the courts,"Kaine said in a written statement.
"Accordingly, I decline to intervene."
Kaine's announcement came a day after the Supreme Court declined to intervene in the case.
During two trials -- including one featuring testimony from Malvo, whose youth meant he was not eligible for the death penalty -- and in years of appeals, Muhammad has professed his innocence.
Muhammad's attorney had argued his client was not given sufficient time to file his final appeal, but said Tuesday -- after the high court and the governor declined his request for a stay -- that he would make no further efforts to delay the matter.
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Muhammad met Tuesday with J. Wyndal Gordon, who was his former stand-by attorneyin his Maryland trial, in which he represented himself.
"His attitude was strong, it was sturdy," Gordon told reporters. "Mr.Mohammad maintains his innocence in this case, and he always has. He is not remorseful, although he does extend his condolences to the families. What these families went through is tragic in every level. Given the injustices in this case, what Mr. Mohammad went through is equally as tragic."
Gordon said he does not consider Mohammad to be insane. "However," he added, "I am not a psychiatrist or a psychologist."
The lawyer said Muhammad's last meal was "chicken and red sauce, and he had some cakes."
Gordon predicted that Muhammad's strength would continue until his final moments.
"I expect that he will come into his death bed with this head held uphigh," he said. "He is not a broken man and even on his death bed, he will express his righteous indignation for his own execution."
Muhammad, who opted not to select a spiritual adviser, met during the afternoon with his immediate family. He was to meet with his attorneys later in the afternoon, said Traylor.
A few minutes before 9 p.m., the warden will read aloud the court order, Muhammad's cell door will be opened, and the inmate will be given denim jeans, a short-sleeved denim shirt and "something like flip-flops," Traylor said.
The officers will put handcuffs and ankle restraints on him, then escort him to the death chamber, he said.
There, he will be placed prone on a gurney, to which his ankles, torso and arms will be strapped.
Curtainswill then be drawn as the execution team enters the chamber and places an intravenous line in each of his arms -- "main and backup," Traylor said.
Once the IVs are in place, the team will leave the room, the curtains will be opened and the warden will ask Muhammad if he has any last words and give him a chance to speak.
"After about 15 to 20 seconds, we're going to start the process in order to carry out the court order."
Muhammad's view will be limited to members of the media pool and the official witnesses; he will not be able to see any victims or their relatives,Traylor said.
Once he has been declared dead and the body has been prepared and made "ready to travel," it will be sent to Richmond to the office of the medical examiner, he said.
Among the witnesses will be victims and their families, whose numbers Traylor would not divulge. "It's a lot," he said. "We only have limited space, and we've had to work with the victim family members from all over thecountry."
They will be the last to enter the execution area and the first to leave, he said.
Anothersix state execution witnesses, drawn from a list of volunteers, will be there, as will four members of the news media, he said.
Muhammad will leave four children and two ex-wives, both of whom appeared Monday on CNN's "Larry King Live."
Muhammad's first wife, Carol Williams, showed a letter in which he asked her to visit him on his execution day. "Carol, I miss my family for the past eight years," he wrote, referring to the time he has been incarcerated." I don't want to be missed the day that these devils murder my innocent black ass."
Williams said Tuesday's reunion was to be their first in years, though they had communicated by letter and spoken by phone.
"Basically he wanted me to just let his kids know that he loved them very much and to just tell me some different things, that he was sorry that he never gave our marriage a chance to work, because he was having an affair,"she said. "So basically he was just apologizing."
Asked about his father, Lindbergh Williams said his feelings about the death penalty had not softened with the approach of the execution. "If you commit a crime, you can pay the time," he said.
Asked whether he believes his father regrets what he did, the younger Williams said, "Yes, I really do."
Mildred Muhammad, the sniper's second ex-wife and the mother of three of his children, told CNN on Monday that she last saw him in 2001 at a custody hearing and had not sought to visit him in prison.
"I had emotionally detached from John when I asked him for a divorce," she told CNN. "And my emotions were severed when he said that you have become my enemy and as my enemy, I will kill you."
She has asserted that she was her ex-husband's target, and she blamed the first Gulf War for changing his personality.
"He went from someone who was always happy, that knew what direction he was going in, and was focused, to a person that was totally confused, depressed all the time, and didn't know how to do or get to where he wanted to be."
She said he never received counseling after his return to the United States.
But lawyer Gordon disputed her account, saying that Muhammad "was absolutely not affected by his time in the Gulf War. We did discuss that."