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...weeks ago, John Ashcroft announced a carefully designed viewing protocol for the execution: Given the scope of McVeigh's crime, 10 witnesses (rather than the usual eight) will join a few members of the press in watching McVeigh die. The execution will be shown live via closed-circuit television to a group of several hundred survivors and victims' family members gathered in Oklahoma City. The transmission and those who watch it will be carefully monitored (even cell phones will not be permitted) in an attempt to stave off entrepreneurs intent on hijacking the signal. Only those considered...
...Because his crime is unique in American history, McVeigh is viewed as a special threat. But what kind of a threat does his death really represent? Would a national broadcast of an execution for a crime that was, ostensibly, targeted at the entire nation really present more problems than an execution shown to a select group of people...
...case, the Court would probably ask if watching a prisoner die actually fills a demonstrable informational need. "Would this really help people understand the nature of executions, or is it essentially an exercise in voyeurism?" asks Flynn. Sure, some of us might secretly harbor a desire to watch McVeigh die, but does that make the execution itself newsworthy? Edward Pease, the head of the journalism department at Utah State University in Logan, thinks not. "It seems to me the news organizations could find new and better ways to use the expenditures they're already spending on the McVeigh story - think...
...Like many Americans, including Ashcroft, Pease argues that McVeigh has already gained enough from his terrorist act. And now, Pease says, the television networks see it as their chance to gain - even at the expense of the national peace of mind. "I can understand that maybe the families of the victims want to see that he is really dead. But for the rest of us, it seems to me that if the execution were reported quietly at the bottom of page 4, it would serve exactly the same purpose. America needs to put closure on this terrible event. But this...
American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing