John Allen Muhammad is due to be executed on Tuesday for the murder of Dean Harold Meyers, one of 10 people killed during the attacks.

The court gave no reason for Monday's rejection of the appeal.

Only a final appeal for clemency to Virginia Governor Tim Kaine can save Muhammad, 48, from lethal injection.

Muhammad's accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, who was 17 at the time of the shootings, is serving a life sentence in jail.

The pair killed 10 people during three weeks of attacks in Maryland, Washington and Virginia.

Muhammad is due to be put to death at the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Virginia.

But his legal team has criticised the ruling, saying ex-soldier Muhammad is mentally ill and suffered from Gulf War Syndrome.

Lawyer Jonathan Sheldon told the BBC's World Today: "A psychiatrist examined him and said he's paranoid and psychotic and delusional and gave many examples."

Mr Sheldon also said brain scans of Muhammad had revealed malformations linked to schizophrenia

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Am I the only one who doesn't care if this guy dies? The only one who would rather the hundreds of thousands of dollars that would be spent on this person be spent somewhere else as he's laying 6 feet under?

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This is stupid.  Incarceration for life costs a shit ton less than capital punishment.

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Quote: from Joep0113 at 5:46 pm on Nov. 10, 2009

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Am I the only one who doesn't care if this guy dies? The only one who would rather the hundreds of thousands of dollars that would be spent on this person be spent somewhere else as he's laying 6 feet under?

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This is stupid. Incarceration for life costs a shit ton less than capital punishment.

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a bullet costs thirty cants. rat poison costs a couple of bucks. water for drowning is free. ropes what? 10-15 bucks for 75yrds?

incarciration is a shit load of money

i vote we kill them all

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Quote: from Joep0113 at 5:46 pm on Nov. 10, 2009

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Am I the only one who doesn't care if this guy dies? The only one who would rather the hundreds of thousands of dollars that would be spent on this person be spent somewhere else as he's laying 6 feet under?

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This is stupid. Incarceration for life costs a shit ton less than capital punishment.

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This is news to me

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It costs less to feed, clothe, protect, and provide medical coverage for an inmate over the course of 40-50 years than kill him?  

This is news to me

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To cite a few examples:

California:

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The additional cost of confining an inmate to death row, as compared to the maximum security prisons where those sentenced to life without possibility of parole ordinarily serve their sentences, is $90,000 per year per inmate.

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Maryland:

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he study estimates that the average cost to Maryland taxpayers for reaching a single death sentence is $3 million - $1.9 million more than the cost of a non-death penalty case. (This includes investigation, trial, appeals, and incarceration costs.) The study examined 162 capital cases that were prosecuted between 1978 and 1999 and found that those cases will cost $186 million more than what those cases would have cost had the death penalty not existed as a punishment.

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Federal:

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he average cost of defending a trial in a federal death case is $620,932, about 8 times that of a federal murder case in which the death penalty is not sought.

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USA:

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Capital cases burden county budgets with large unexpected costs, according to a report released by the National Bureau of Economic Research, "The Budgetary Repercussions of Capital Convictions," by Katherine Baicker. Counties manage these high costs by decreasing funding for highways and police and by increasing taxes. The report estimates that between 1982-1997 the extra cost of capital trials was $1.6 billion. (NBER Working Paper No. w8382, Issued in July 2001)

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Quote: from Joep0113 at 8:17 pm on Nov. 10, 2009

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It costs less to feed, clothe, protect, and provide medical coverage for an inmate over the course of 40-50 years than kill him?

 This is news to me

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To cite a few examples:

California:

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The additional cost of confining an inmate to death row, as compared to the maximum security prisons where those sentenced to life without possibility of parole ordinarily serve their sentences, is $90,000 per year per inmate.

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http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/costs-death-penalty

Maryland:

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he study estimates that the average cost to Maryland taxpayers for reaching a single death sentence is $3 million - $1.9 million more than the cost of a non-death penalty case. (This includes investigation, trial, appeals, and incarceration costs.) The study examined 162 capital cases that were prosecuted between 1978 and 1999 and found that those cases will cost $186 million more than what those cases would have cost had the death penalty not existed as a punishment.

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http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/CostsDPMaryland.pdf

Federal:

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he average cost of defending a trial in a federal death case is $620,932, about 8 times that of a federal murder case in which the death penalty is not sought.

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http://www.uscourts.gov/defenderservices/FDPC_Contents.cfm

USA:

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Capital cases burden county budgets with large unexpected costs, according to a report released by the National Bureau of Economic Research, "The Budgetary Repercussions of Capital Convictions," by Katherine Baicker. Counties manage these high costs by decreasing funding for highways and police and by increasing taxes. The report estimates that between 1982-1997 the extra cost of capital trials was $1.6 billion. (NBER Working Paper No. w8382, Issued in July 2001)

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http://papers.nber.org/papers/w8382

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We're talking about incarceration and death penalty, not the trials leading up to them.

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