2003 - 2006
Muhammad and Malvo are tried in several courts in Virginia and Maryland over this period. Muhammad was ultimately given the death penalty in 2004. Malvo, as part of his plea deal to testify against Muhammad, is given six consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole.
November 10, 2009
John Allen Muhammad is executed by lethal injection at 9:00 p.m. EST at the Greensville Correctional Center in Greensville County, near Jarratt, Virginia.
May 26, 2017
A federal judge overturns two of Malvo’s life sentences in Chesapeake and Spotsylvania County in Virginia. Malvo’s other Virginia convictions still stand, as well as his previous sentences from Maryland.
June 21, 2018
A federal appeals court agrees Malvo’s four life sentences from Virginia must be vacated based on a 2012 Supreme Court decision that it is unconstitutional for juveniles to receive mandatory life sentences without the possibility of parole.
March 18, 2019
The Supreme Court agrees to take up Malvo’s case in Virginia after the state appealed the lower court’s ruling.
February 26, 2020
On Malvo’s request two days earlier, the Supreme Court dismisses the pending case concerning Malvo in a one-sentence order. The order comes two days after Virginia’s governor signed a bill making juvenile offenders who were sentenced to life imprisonment eligible for parole after serving 20 years. Malvo is eligible for release in Virginia in 2022; as of August 2022 he will be resentenced in Maryland though changes to his Maryland sentence will not come into effect until after he finishes his sentencings in Virginia.