Washington DC, Nov 10 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Convicted D.C. sniper John Allen Muhammad has lost his appeal, which could have saved his life and he is now all set to be executed in a Virginia prison on Tuesday.

It may be recalled that, Mr. Muhammad and his 17-year-old partner in crime, Lee Boyd Malvo, terrorized the Washington region in September and October 2002 as they engaged in a series of apparently random sniper attacks in which 16 people were shot out of which around 10 died.

Jon Sheldon, Muhammad’s attorney, had argued in John’s favor that his execution was not fair, because jurors in his case were not aware that he suffered from a severe mental disease at the time of his first murder trial in 2003.

He described Muhammad as a “psychotic, delusional and paranoid” man.

“By denying Muhammad’s stay application, we have allowed Virginia to truncate our deliberative process on a matter — involving a death-row inmate — that demands the most careful attention,” wrote Justice John Paul Stevens.

Meanwhile the kin and the kith of the victims were happy that his plea was rejected, as they wanted justice to be done. “I want to see what he made me see,” Marion Lewis, the father of 25-year-old victim Lori Lewis Rivera, told the Washington Post. Lewis’s daughter was shot while vacuuming her car at a gas station in Kensington, Md. “He forced us to look at our little girl laying in a coffin. I want to see justice done.”