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McLEAN, Va. — A federal pass sentence upon today rejected an appeal from convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad, who was sentenced to death beneficial to masterminding a 2002 killing spree in the Washington, D.C., tract that left 10 the many the crowd dead.

Muhammad, who lived in Tacoma and Bellingham before the shooting spree and is from this on death row in Virginia, claimed numerous errors at his 2003 chagrin. U.S. District Judge Liam O’Grady in Alexandria, Va., rejected all of Muhammad’s challenges to his conviction and sentence.

The Virginia Supreme Court had already rejected Muhammad’s appeal. O’Grady’s order issued today lifts a stay of execution that had been in place while he considered the appeal, further Muhammad be able to appeal O’Grady’s ruling to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond.

Muhammad’s appellate lawyers didn’t immediately return a phone message and e-mails today. They have argued that he should not have been allowed to serve as his own barrister for part of the trial because of mental illness.

Specifically, appellate lawyers James Connell and Jonathan Sheldon argued that his trial lawyers knew enough about Muhammad’s mental illnesses and brain abnormalities that they should have persuaded the test suppose to shut out Muhammad from representing himself.

Muhammad surprised the court and his own lawyers at the outset of his trial by demanding to portray by action himself. He gave his own hole statement and cross-examined key witnesses for pair days before relinquishing the case back to his trial lawyers, Peter Greenspun and Jonathan Shapiro.

In a 36-page ruling, O’Grady said there is in no degree evidence that Muhammad was incompetent and unable to represent himself.

“Muhammad was highly lucid and coherent during woe,” O’Grady wrote.

Muhammad also challenged the constitutionality of Virginia’session terrorism statutes, passed after the Sept. 11 attacks, under which he was prosecuted. Muhammad’sitting lawyers argued that the laws are impermissibly vague.

O’Grady ruled that the law’sitting meaning is evident, and that the sniper killings were a classic example of the kind of terrorism the act targets.

“Muhammad’s murderous 47-day rampage in the fall of 2002 could not more squarely fit the guidance proscribed by the Virginia reign of terror statutes,” he wrote.

Muhammad and his teenage accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, were convicted of a random killing spree that left 10 people dead in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia and terrorized the community’s capital region for three weeks in October 2002.