Dawud Majid Mu'Min (born David Michael Allen May 19No quick definition available. May 19, 1953Year 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.1953 - November 13No quick definition available. November 13, 1997Year 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar). The year 1997 was the Year of the Ox according to the Chinese Zodiac.1997) was a convicted murderer executed by VirginiaThe Commonwealth of Virginia (IPA: /IPA chart for English|/) is a Southeastern state historically considered part of the southern region of the United States of America. Named after Queen Elizabeth I of England, who was known as the Virgin Queen, this commonwealth was one of the thirteen colonies that revolted against British rule in the American ...Virginia for the September 22No quick definition available. September 22, 1988Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). In the 20th century, the year 1988 has the most Roman-numeral digits (11), and it is the year of the dragon in the Chinese zodiac.1988 killing of a clerk. He was serving a 48 year prison sentence for a 1973 murder conviction of a taxi driver in Grayson CountyGrayson County is a county located in the southwestern part of the U.S. state — officially, "Commonwealth" — of Virginia. As of the 2000 census, the population was 17,917. Its county seat is Independence6. It is bounded on the northwest by Smyth County; on the northeast by Wythe County; on the southwest by Ashe County, North Carolina; on the south by Alleghany County, North Carolina, on the southeast by Surry County, North Carolina, on the east by the Independent City of Galax and by Carroll County, and on the west ...Grayson County. While in prison, he converted to IslamIslam (Arabic: ) is a monotheistic religion originating with the teachings of Muhammad, a 7th-century Arab religious and political figure. The word Islam means "submission", or the total surrender of oneself to God (Arabic: , Allāh). An adherent of Islam is known as a Muslim, meaning "one who submits (to God)". There are between 0.9 and 1.4 billion Muslims, making Islam the second-largest religion in the world, after Christianity. Muslims believe that God revealed the Qur'an to Muhammad, God's final prophet, ...Islam.

Mu'Min was assigned to a daily work crew detail with the Virginia Department of TransportationThe Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) is the government agency responsible for building, maintaining and operating Virginia's roads, bridges and tunnels. It is overseen by the Commonwealth Transportation Board, which has the power to fund airports, seaports, rail and public transportation. Virginia has the third largest state-maintained highway system in the country, just behind North Carolina ...Virginia Department of Transportation in Dale City. During his lunch break, he left his group, which was supervised only by an unarmed transportation crew worker, and made his way to a nearby business, Dale City Floors in the Glossary.comAshdale Shopping Center
http://maps.google.com/maps?oi=map&q =2898+Dale+Boulevard,+Dale+City,+VAAshdale Shopping Center, and stabbed Gladys Nopwasky, the proprietor, 16 times in the neck and chest with a screwdriverThe screwdriver is a device specifically designed to insert and tighten, or to loosen and remove, screws. The screwdriver comprises a head or tip which engages with a screw, a mechanism to apply torque by rotating the tip, and some way to position and support the screwdriver. A typical hand screwdriver comprises an approximately cylindrical handle of a size and shape to be held by a human hand, and an axial shaft fixed to the handle, the tip of ...screwdriver. He took $4.00 and returned to the road detail, leaving Nopwasky's half-naked body lying in a pool of her blood.

Mu'Min was arrested and convicted of capital murder. The Corrections Department, meanwhile, responded to public outcry over the killing by revamping its 80-year-old practice of using inmate labor outside the prison fences. Virginia now allows only inmates convicted of nonviolent crimes and considered to be low security risks to take part in work details, which are supervised by armed department guards.

Mu'Min was put to death by lethal injection:This article is about the execution and euthanasia method. For the Ice Cube album, see Lethal Injection (album). Lethal injection involves injecting a person with fatal doses of drugs to cause death. The main applications are euthanasia and capital punishment. This article focuses on the latter. As a method for capital punishment, it gained popularity in the twentieth century as form of execution meant to supplant methods – such as electrocution, hanging, firing squad, gas chamber, or decapitation – that were ...lethal injection on at Greensville Correctional CenterGreensville Correctional Center is a prison facility constructed in Jarratt, Virginia operated by the Virginia Department of Corrections. Opened in September, 1990 in a ceremony presided over by Governor L. Douglas Wilder, the $106 million facility was built to provide initial relief to the then overcrowded Virginia correctional system. The facility opening allowed for the subsequent closure ...Greensville Correctional Center.