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...Timothy McVeigh and the nation he attacked share one belief: you strike your blow at the moment that it sends the most resounding message. McVeigh detonated his bomb outside an Oklahoma City federal office building, with a gray-flannel salaryman's punctuality, on a workday morning at 9:02 a.m. This Monday, another workday morning, he is scheduled to die by lethal injection in Terre Haute, Ind., promptly at 8:00 a.m. ET - smack in the middle of prime time for the three network morning shows...
...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 morning will be a live public execution in all but the most literal sense. Some 1,600 journalists will be in Terre Haute, their tape recorders and cameras trained on the expected throng of demonstrators. Jane Clayson will be there; Katie Couric and Charles Gibson will be in Oklahoma City, along with...
...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 date in May). Those documents, the defense insists, may identify new accomplices - and potentially shift some of the blame from McVeigh?s shoulders...
...Instead, Matsch ruled against McVeigh, saying, "As the 12 jurors believe the verdict (against McVeigh) is justified under all circumstances and executed their moral judgment as a conscience of the community, whatever in time may be discovered about the possible involvement of others does not change the fact that Timothy McVeigh was the instrument of death and destruction...
...Matsch's judgment was met with praise - Attorney General John Ashcroft called Matsch?s decision "a ruling for justice" - and with criticism - McVeigh attorney Robert Nigh expressed "extreme disappointment - and the Appeals Court's decision was met with more of the same. In Terre Haute, Indiana, where McVeigh is scheduled to die Monday, the rush of rulings prompted a rush of preparations, as restaurateurs and motel owners scrambled to get ready for the onslaught of media and curiosity seekers expected to descend upon the city over the next few days...