10/22/09

BOISE, Idaho (AP) _

Marion Lewis said Thursday the 20-year-old program agreed to
cover his expenses for a four-day trip to Virginia's Greensville
Correctional Center, where Muhammad is due to die Nov. 10. In
exchange, he'll do an interview with the show.

Lewis's 25-year-old daughter, Lori Ann Lewis-Rivera, was
vacuuming her minivan Oct. 3, 2002 at a Shell station near where
she lived in Silver Spring, Md. when Muhammad and his young
accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, gunned her down.

Muhammad, responsible for killing 10 people in the three-week
sniper spree, was sentenced to death for one of the murders in
Virginia; Malvo is serving life in prison.

Lewis, an unemployed construction worker who previously had made
a plea for financial assistance to cover his trip to the Virginia
death chamber, says, ``There's never been any question about
watching that animal die, for me.''

Inside Edition didn't immediately return a phone call seeking
comment.

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