Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine has cleared the way for the execution of sniper John Allen Muhammad.

John Allen Muhammad, the mastermind behind the sniper attacks that left 10 dead, was executed Tuesday as relatives of the victims watched, reliving the killing spree that terrorized the Washington, D.C., area for three weeks in October 2002.

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to block Tuesday’s scheduled execution of sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammad.

At 7:24 p.m., Tuesday evening…Mark McClain was pronounced dead after being executed by lethal injection…14 years after he shot and killed Kevin Brown inside a Domino’s Pizza on Washington Road…12 years after he was found guilty of that crime, and sentenced to die. Kevin Brown’s father died shortly after the murder, but those who are still around, and knew Kevin, they say it’s a somber day, like John Eckburg, a friend and former co-worker of Kevin’s. WJBF News Channel 6’s Barclay Bishop has more.

A man convicted of murdering an Augusta Domino’s Pizza store manager during a robbery, 15 years ago, is scheduled to be executed Tuesday night. Mark Howard McClain is scheduled to be executed at 7 p.m. at the state prison in Jackson. UPDATE: Mark McClain was pronounced dead at 7:24 p.m., Tuesday night.

The lawyer for an Augusta man set to become the state’s 23rd inmate to be executed has petitioned the Georgia Supreme Court and U.S. Supreme Court to spare his client’s life…Mark McClain is scheduled to die, Tuesday night, at 7:00 p.m. McClain’s attorney, on monday, asked the U.S. Supreme Court to order a lower court review of the case…

South Carolina’s Parole and Pardons board unanimously pardoned two great-uncles of national radio host Tom Joyner Wednesday. Thomas and Meeks Griffin were convicted of the 1913 murder of a white farmer in Chester County. Joyner came to Columbia from Dallas to plead their case. WJBF News Channel 6’s SC Capitol reporter, Robert Kittle, has more.

South Carolina’s Parole and Pardons board unanimously pardoned two great-uncles of national radio host Tom Joyner Wednesday. Thomas and Meeks Griffin were convicted of the 1913 murder of a white farmer in Chester County. Joyner came to Columbia from Dallas to plead their case. WJBF News Channel 6’s SC Capitol reporter, Robert Kittle, has more.

A Georgia death row inmate is asking the nation’s top court to halt his execution until it resolves an Alabama death penalty case he says could affect his legal challenge. Mark McClain asked the U.S. Supreme Court to delay the execution because a ruling in the other case could “alter the legal prism” through which his case is viewed.

The Georgia Department of Corrections has set Oct. 20 at 7 p.m. for the execution of a convicted Richmond County murderer. A warrant signed Thursday by a judge permits the state to execute 43-year-old Mark McClain at any time between noon Oct. 20 and noon Oct. 27 at the state prison in Jackson.

The U.S. Supreme Court has granted a condemned Georgia inmate’s request that his execution be delayed, as he attempts to prove his innocence. The inmate, Troy Davis, has gained international support for his long-standing claim that he did not murder a Savannah police officer, nearly two decades ago. Don Logana has more on the case.

The Supreme Court says condemned inmate Troy Davis should get another chance to prove his innocence before the state of Georgia executes him.

A former truck driver who went on a multistate killing spree has been executed in Ohio for the murder of a Cincinnati-area man who gave him a ride in 1991. Forty-five-year-old John Fautenberry of Oregon was pronounced dead at 10:37 a.m. Tuesday at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville.

One more appeal stands between a 34-year-old Alabama man and execution by lethal injection in South Carolina’s death chamber. Thomas Treshawn Ivey is to be executed Friday for killing Tommy Harrison. Prosecutors say Ivey shot the 38-year-old Orangeburg police sergeant in 1993 after trying to pass a bad check.

The Georgia Supreme Court has stayed the execution of a white supremacist just hours before he was to be put to death. William Mark Mize, 52, was convicted of killing one of his own followers. He was scheduled to die by lethal injection at 7 p.m. Tuesday for the 1994 murder of Eddie Tucker, who was shot to death after he failed to burn down what Mize considered to be a crack house in Athens.