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...viewing room outside the death chamber at Terre Haute fits only about eight people, so roughly 250 other people want the feds to provide a closed-circuit television broadcast, either to a viewing room in Terre Haute or a remote site in Oklahoma City. After all, other victims' families are permitted to watch an execution if they choose - it's just the sheer number of victims in this scenario that presents a problem. But while many agree with the request in theory, the situation still presents U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft with something of an ethical conundrum: Will...
...request. The decision, Justice Department officials report, will not be made until later this week, after Ashcroft has had a chance to meet with more family members and law enforcement officials familiar with the case. DOJ insiders predict that barring some unforeseen discovery, Ashcroft will allow the closed-circuit broadcast...
...McVeigh, who has rejected any move to appeal his conviction, has asked repeatedly for his execution to be broadcast nationally. While no one expects that to happen, McVeigh's entreaty and the family members' request to view the execution have focused the country's attention on the issues of crime, punishment and retribution...
...McVeigh's death is broadcast to survivors, will it establish a dangerous precedent? Brenda Bowser, communications director at the nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center in Washington, D.C., doesn't think so - simply because McVeigh's case is so unique. "There have been very few, if any, death penalty cases in U.S. history with so many victims," Bowser told TIME.com. "Thousands of people were directly affected by the Oklahoma City bombing." The sheer breadth of McVeigh's terrorism, says Bowser, makes this crime - and its punishment - different from anything else we've seen...
...civil rights movement, television provided the first rough draft of history. Searing images of demonstrators being beaten, attacked by police dogs and knocked down by fire hoses aroused the conscience of the nation and helped assure the movement's success. But for all its power and persuasiveness, broadcast news inevitably oversimplified the story, literally reducing it, in the days before color TV, to a black-and-white morality play. It could not explain how ordinary black men and women and their white allies mustered the extraordinary courage with which they confronted the brutality of segregation. Nor could it explain...