RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia has denied parole to convicted sniper killer Lee Boyd Malvo, ruling that he’s nonetheless a threat to the group 20 years after he and his companion terrorized the Washington, D.C., area with a sequence of random shootings.
Malvo was 17 when he and John Allen Muhammad shot and killed 10 folks and wounded three others over a three-week span in October 2002. A number of different victims had been shot and killed throughout the nation within the prior months because the duo made their approach to the nation’s capital area from Washington state.
Malvo was convicted of capital homicide in Virginia and sentenced to life in jail with out parole. However a sequence of Supreme Courtroom rulings and a change in Virginia legislation gave Malvo the chance to hunt parole after serving almost 20 years in custody.
The Virginia Parole Board rejected his request on Aug. 30, discovering that Malvo stays a threat to the group and will serve extra of his sentence earlier than being launched on parole, state data of Parole Board choices for August present.
“Launch presently would diminish seriousness of crime; Severe nature and circumstances of your offense(s),” the Parole Board wrote.
Malvo’s confederate, John Allen Muhammad, was executed in Virginia in 2009. Malvo, now 37, was sentenced to life with out parole for the three Virginia killings. However after the U.S. Supreme Courtroom dominated in 2012 that necessary life sentences for juveniles are unconstitutional, two federal courts discovered that Malvo was entitled to new sentencing hearings. The Virginia legislature additionally handed a legislation in 2020 that gave juvenile offenders a possibility to hunt parole after serving 20 years.
Malvo was a 15-year-old from Jamaica who had been despatched to reside in Antigua when he met the a lot older Muhammad. Muhammad skilled and indoctrinated Malvo, and in 2002 the pair launched into a nationwide killing spree that ended with the ten slayings in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia.
Trial testimony indicated the shootings had been a plan for Muhammad to regain custody of his youngsters by killing his ex-wife and making her demise look like a results of random violence.
Malvo is serving his sentence on the tremendous maximum-security Purple Onion State Jail in Virginia.
Even when Malvo had been granted parole in Virginia, he additionally obtained a life jail sentence in Maryland for crimes within the neighboring state. Final month, Maryland’s highest courtroom dominated that Malvo should be resentenced for his crimes there.
