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Should Timothy McVeigh Die? The jury that found him guilty must now decide whether he should be executed or spend his life in prison June 16, 1997 Read the Cover Story...
...Timothy McVeigh will not die next Wednesday...
...After months of anticipation, McVeigh?s execution has been delayed so that his defense team can examine an estimated 3,100 pages of documents discovered this week during an FBI archiving exercise. The documents were supposed to have been provided to the defense under a pre-trial agreement; Attorney General John Ashcroft has given McVeigh?s lawyers until June 11 to examine the papers...
...There are other, extraneous factors at work, too - $580 million in unpaid American dues to the U.N. is still locked up in Congress despite an agreement last year to pay up. And the impending execution of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh once again highlights a moral schism between the U.S. and its European allies over capital punishment - despite the fact that some 70 percent of Americans believe in the death penalty, it is anathema in Europe. In fact, his record as Texas governor made the death penalty one of the primary sources of disapproval of President Bush in European public...
...lifted ignominiously off the American embassy roof in Saigon) by saying that, what with Vietnam and nuclear weapons, "the suspicion grows that battle has already abolished itself." It is pretty to think so. What we have left, in any case, is chronic but localized messes--and terrorism of the McVeigh or bin Laden variety...