Dawud M. Mu'Min

Dawud Majid Mu'Min (born as David Michael Allen) (May 19, 1953 – November 13, 1997) was a convicted murderer executed by the State of Virginia for the September 22, 1988, killing of a retailer.

[1] On February 27, 1973, Allen, then 19, fatally shot 43-year-old Charles Shupe, a taxi driver, in Grayson County, Virginia.

During his lunch break, he left his group, which was supervised only by an unarmed transportation crew worker, and made his way to a nearby business, Dale City Floors, in the Ashdale Shopping Center, and found 42-year-old Gladys Nopwasky, the proprietor.

The Corrections Department, meanwhile, responded to public outcry over the killing by revamping its 80-year-old practice of using inmate labor outside the prison fences.

Virginia now allows only inmates convicted of nonviolent crimes and considered to be low security risks to take part in work details, which are supervised by armed corrections officers.