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Page last updated at 03:48 GMT, Wednesday, 11 November 2009

Washington sniper is put to death

The man behind the 2002 sniper attacks in and around Washington DC has been executed by lethal injection.

John Allen Muhammad, 48, was put to death at the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Virginia.

Adam Brookes reports.

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