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...Timothy McVeigh will make a statement at his formal sentencing tomorrow in Judge Matsch's Denver courtroom -- and it's likely to contain few kind words for Stephen Jones, who McVeigh wants the court to yank from his case. "He screwed up badly but I'm not bitter," McVeigh told the Buffalo News Tuesday. "I only want him off my appeal...
Death by injection is too painless. Life in prison is comparable to a stay at camp. Let's reinstate hard labor and send animals like McVeigh to Devil's Island, the way the French used to. FRANCOISE M. RICH Universal City, Texas...
...said that it might be best if Timothy McVeigh were not executed [CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, June 16], "to deny him his bid for martyrdom, to keep him earthbound and watch him slowly wither...just another old jailbird shuffling around his cell." But McVeigh will never be a martyr in the truest sense of the word, which comes from the Greek word for witness. It connotes one who testifies for his beliefs with the ultimate passionate guarantee of sincerity and a willingness to die for them. McVeigh stood on his right to silence and did not admit to the bombing...
...death penalty, but if not McVeigh, then who? Perhaps some people will understand his hatred of the Federal Government and his desire to blow up the building in Oklahoma City. Perhaps some will even be persuaded by his delusions that Federal Government workers were his enemies and that he was driven to attack them. But to deliberately choose a time that would kill the most people defies imagination. The retiree checking on his Social Security payment was McVeigh's enemy? The veteran applying for a Veterans Administration loan was his enemy? Parking a van loaded with explosives in front...
While the families and friends of the Oklahoma City bombing victims have my deepest sympathy, I cannot help shuddering at the inhumanity displayed by the people who cheered when McVeigh was sentenced to death. This showed they are capable of the same anger and desire to take a life. Are we no better than he is? JEFF GEBAUER Dubuque, Iowa