Jury wants death for Washington sniper

A jury on Monday recommended death sentence for John Allen Muhammad, who masterminded last year's sniper shootings in the Washington area.

The 42-year-old Gulf War veteran should face the electric chair or lethal injection for terrorism and capital murder, it said.

He also received a 10-year sentence recommendation for conspiracy and a three-year sentence recommendation for use of a firearm.

Judge LeRoy Millette who, under Virginia law, can reduce the recommended sentence, set a formal sentencing date of February 12.

Last week the same jury convicted Muhammad of the October 9, 2002, killing of Dean Harold Meyers outside a service station in Virginia.

Meyers was one of 10 people killed in the October 2002 sniper attacks. Three were wounded.

Prosecutors argued that Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo acted as a team.

Malvo, 18, is on trial in Chesapeake for the October 14, 2002, slaying of Linda Franklin in the parking lot of a Virginia store. He has pleaded not guilty.