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...McVeigh Execution on Hold...
What is the problem with the FBI? The discovery of missing files and the consequent delay in the execution of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh [NATION, May 21] are a disgusting injustice to the victims, their families and the American people. Law-enforcement officials have made mistakes resulting in public embarrassment over recent years, but for the highest crime-fighting federal agency to bungle such a crucial case is an atrocity. There is no doubt that McVeigh committed this crime and deserves to die. The information in the newly found files is inconsequential. STEPHANIE ROUSSEL Walker...
None of us who oppose the death penalty want McVeigh as our poster boy. But capital punishment is helping him get what he most desires: public attention. If we had simply locked him up and thrown away the key, he wouldn't be back on the cover of TIME. And feeding him prison food for the rest of his life could hardly be more costly than paying for his lawyers to go through still more thousands of pages of documents. CARRIE NIELSEN Stanford, Calif...
...overlooked documents concerning the bombing investigation. She applauded Attorney General John Ashcroft's quick action in coming forward and postponing the execution. But instead of commending the FBI's attempts to save its own skin (the documents would have shown up eventually), we should encourage the agency to prove McVeigh wrong in his deep hatred of the Federal Government. The more we let government responsibility slide, the more room we are giving for individuals like McVeigh to rant. JULI SCHERMERHORN Union Springs...
...quoted President Bush's statement that McVeigh "is lucky to be in America...a country who will bend over backwards to make sure that his constitutional rights are guaranteed." But in many of the world's developed countries, there is no capital punishment. Unless McVeigh lived in one of the rogue states we in the U.S. deplore, he would not be facing a state-ordered execution! How is he "lucky to be in America"? (THE REV.) JAMES WOOD Bohemia...