Milestones Dec. 8, 2003

SENTENCED TO DEATH. JOHN ALLEN MUHAMMAD, 42, after being found guilty on two counts of capital murder (one conviction was under a new state antiterrorism law) in the first trial resulting from last fall's D.C.-area sniper killings that left 10 dead; in Virginia Beach, Va.

DIED. HAL WALKER, 70, first African-American correspondent for CBS News; of complications from prostate cancer; in Reston, Va. A New York State public-relations executive when CBS hired him in 1963, Walker covered the riots after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the funeral of Robert F. Kennedy and the Iranian hostage crisis during more than...

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