Washington sniper John Muhammad will be sentenced in Maryland today, after being convicted of another six killings.

John Allen Muhammad’s conviction for six more murders in the spree of US sniper shootings in the Washington area gives prosecutors the insurance they sought – that there is little chance he will leave prison alive.

WASHINGTON sniper John Allen Muhammad was convicted of six more of the killings yesterday after a trial in which he acted as his own attorney and the prosecution’s star witness was his young protege and partner in crime.

Jurors were expected to begin deliberations today in the second US trial of a man already convicted for one of the 2002 sniper shootings that spread panic throughout the Washington area.

John Allen Muhammad aggressively questioned his former sniper protégé Lee Boyd Malvo today and kept referring to the young man testifying against him as “son”.

LEE Boyd Malvo testified yesterday that his former partner and father figure, John Allen Muhammad, told him before the 2002 sniper attacks in the Washington DC area: “We’re going to terrorise this nation.”

Lee Boyd Malvo testified in Rockville, Maryland, today that his former partner and father figure, John Allen Muhammad, told him before the 2002 sniper attacks that panicked the region around America’s capital for weeks, “We’re going to terrorise this nation".

Lee Boyd Malvo is expected to take the stand in Rockville, Maryland, on Monday to testify against John Allen Muhammad, his former mentor and alleged accomplice in the October 2002 Washington area sniper shootings trial.

A judge has allowed prison staff to force-feed convicted sniper John Muhammad while he awaits trial in the county for six killings.

Teenage sniper Lee Boyd Malvo struck a deal today in which he avoided the death penalty and was sentenced instead to life without parole for the second of 10 killings that terrorised the Washington area in October 2002.

TEENAGE sniper Lee Boyd Malvo was sentenced to life in prison without parole yesterday for an October 2002 killing spree in the Washington DC area that left 10 people dead.

Teenage sniper Lee Boyd Malvo was jailed for life without parole today for his role in the Washington area killing spree that left 10 people dead.

A JUDGE rejected John Allen Muhammad's insistence of innocence and sentenced him to death, saying his actions in the Washington-area sniper shootings that left 10 people dead were "so vile that they were almost beyond comprehension".

Sniper John Allen Muhammad has been sentenced to death for his role in the October 2002 killing spree that left 10 people dead in the Washington DC area.

A judge will decide today whether convicted sniper mastermind John Muhammad should die for his role in the October 2002 killing spree that left 10 people dead in the Washington DC area.

JURORS returned for a second day of deliberations yesterday on the fate of teenage sniper Lee Malvo, who could receive the death penalty for his role in last year’s string of Washington, DC, area killings.

The jury in the Washington sniper case today spared teenager Lee Boyd Malvo from the death penalty – the fate which awaits his mentor John Allen Muhammad.

A US jury was considering today whether Washington sniper Lee Malvo should live or die, after the teenager was convicted of capital murder over the three-week reign of terror.

A jury convicted Lee Boyd Malvo of capital murder in the Washington-area sniper attacks today, rejecting claims that the teenager was brainwashed by John Allen Muhammad into taking part in the three-week reign of terror that left 10 people dead.

The jury in the Washington sniper murder trial of Lee Malvo was due to consider its verdict today, after hearing closing arguments from both sides in the case.

Lee Boyd Malvo was legally insane during last year’s sniper spree because of intense indoctrination by sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammad, a defence psychiatrist testified at Malvo’s trial in Chesapeake, Virginia.

Prosecutors have said Lee Malvo’s lawyers have not produced enough evidence to support an insanity defence in the Washington sniper trial.

Teenager sniper suspect Lee Malvo sought a way out of his “situation” a few months before the Washington attacks, a court was told.

THE ex-wife of Washington sniper John Muhammad has said she called police to report a car similar to the one used in the killing spree near her home — supporting a defence argument that she was the ultimate target.

The ex-wife of Washington sniper John Muhammad has said she called police to report a car similar to the one used in the killing spree near her home - supporting a defence argument that she was the ultimate target.

A US jury recommended yesterday that John Allen Muhammad should be executed for masterminding the deadly sniper attacks that terrorised the Washington area for three weeks last autumn.

A US jury recommended today that John Allen Muhammad should be executed for masterminding the deadly sniper attacks that terrorised the Washington area for three weeks last autumn.

A cocky Lee Malvo laughed repeatedly during a police interrogation as he recounted some of last year’s Washington sniper attacks, saying of one victim, ”He was hit good. Dead immediately”, a detective told the murder trial.

“I INTENDED to kill them all.”

In a chilling audio tape played for the jury, a soft-spoken Lee Malvo told police he pulled the trigger in all of the sniper attacks that terrified the Washington area.

Washington sniper John Muhammad was waiting today to hear if he would face the death penalty after being convicted of using a high-powered rifle, a battered car and a teenage sidekick to murder and terrorise people.

A teenager accused of being one of the Washington snipers went on trial for his life today.

A woman killed outside an Alabama liquor store the month before the Washington-area sniper spree probably died from a shot from a high-powered rifle, a witness testified yesterday.

The trial of Washington sniper suspect John Lee Malvo will not be postponed to allow time for a mental health expert to examine him, a judge ruled.

Washington sniper suspect John Muhammad gave up trying to be his own lawyer and put his fate back in the hands of his court-appointed lawyers, after two days of courtroom fumbling.

Sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad changed his mind today and stopped acting as his own lawyer at his trial after only one day of cross-examining witnesses.

A judge today granted sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad’s surprise request to represent himself in his trial.

ONE of two men accused of the Washington sniper shootings pleaded not guilty as his murder trial began yesterday.

A 42-year-old man entered not guilty pleas today at the beginning of a trial over the killing of 10 people during a three-week reign of terror in and around Washington last year.

The trial of one of the Washington serial sniper suspects, accused of killing 10 people during a three-week reign of terror, was due to begin today.

Lawyers for Washington sniper suspect Lee Malvo are to mount an insanity defence at his murder trial, arguing that the teenager was a victim of “indoctrination” by his older co-defendant John Muhammad.

One of the two suspects in last year's Washington area sniper shootings told a prison guard that he shot a teenage boy to anger the police chief heading the investigation, the guard has told a court.

A JUDGE yesterday ordered a change of venue for the trial of sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo, moving the case from Fairfax County to Chesapeake, 200 miles to the south.

Teenage sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo implicated his alleged accomplice as an equal partner in their shooting spree, with John Allen Muhammad acting as a spotter and calling out shots, prosecutors said.