The Foreign Service Journal, October 2003

n October 2002, hundreds of thousands of Washington, D.C.-area residents lived in con- stant fear of being murdered by mysterious snipers. Eventually, John Allen Muhammad and Lee Malvo were arrest- ed and charged with 21 cold-blooded, premeditated attacks that killed 14 people across the country — 10 of them in the D.C. area alone — and seriously wounded several others. Among the victims: • Lori Ann Lewis-Rivera, 25, mother of a three-year-old. A nanny. Shot while vacuuming her employer’s van at a car wash. M ANY COUNTRIES HAVE ABOLISHED THE DEATH PENALTY AND ARE TURNING UP THE PRESSURE ON THE U.S. TO DO LIKEWISE . B UT FOREIGN VIEWS SHOULDN ’ T CONTROL A MERICAN LAW . B Y P AUL R OSENZWEIG 26 F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L / O C T O B E R 2 0 0 3 F O C U S O N D I P L O M A C Y & T H E D E A T H P E N A L T Y I T HE D EATH P ENALTY , A MERICA , AND THE W ORLD Adam Niklewicz