Victim's dad awaits sniper's execution

MOUNTAIN HOME, Idaho, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- The father of one of the victims of District of Columbia snipers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo says he wants to watch Muhammad's execution this week.

Marion Lewis, 57, of Mountain Home, Idaho, said he would "pull the switch or push the plunger myself" to cause the death of Muhammad, who is scheduled to be executed Tuesday in Virginia, The Washington Post reported Monday.

Muhammad is scheduled to be executed Tuesday for the Oct. 9, 2002, murder of Dean Meyers, 53, a civil engineer from Gaithersburg, Md., who was shot while buying gas near Manassas, Va. Lewis's daughter, Lori Lewis Rivera, was killed by Muhammad and Malvo six days earlier at a gas station in Kensington, Md.

Muhammad was the mastermind of the killings in which 10 people at random were killed by sniper fire.

"I want to see what he made me see," Lewis told the Post. "He forced us to look at our little girl laying in a coffin. I want to see justice done. I want to see him take a last breath. ... I want to be able to describe it to the rest of the family."