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The pre-execution debate over who would get to watch McVeigh's end and how - eventually, a closed-circuit broadcast to victims' families was approved - revived that perennial chestnut: Is America ready for a live public execution? A provocative question, and a nearly superfluous one. What we will see Monday...
Is America ready for a live public execution? We're soaking in it.
We may have finally reached the end of the Timothy McVeigh saga. Thursday afternoon, after a day of considering arguments from McVeigh?s attorneys and government counterparts, a three-judge panel from the 10th U.S. Circuit denied McVeigh's request for a stay of execution, saying his attorneys "utterly failed...
It's been a bad week for McVeigh; Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Richard Matsch refused to delay the execution date for the convicted Oklahoma City bomber, ruling that McVeigh should die on Monday, June 11th for his role in the 1995 explosion that killed 168 people.
Many had expected Matsch to grant McVeigh?s request for the delay; the defense argued that the government had committed "a fraud upon the court" by withholding almost 4,000 documents from the trial. (The documents were uncovered by FBI staffers less than a week before McVeigh?s original execution...