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...Many of those who had family members killed in the Oklahoma City bombing have petitioned for the right to witness the execution next month of Timothy McVeigh - to have it shown on a closed-circuit television hookup, so that hundreds of them...
...someone in a white coat bend over an I.V. tube run into the strapped-down killer's arm, and - they would infer, because they could not see it - delicately squirt lethal fluid from a hypodermic into the tube, like a nurse giving a sedative. And they would watch McVeigh go to sleep. This is "closure...
...late to reconsider. Does this Bluebeard's castle of a culture, this cable-ready 24/7 spectacle of the untrammeled Super-Id, which electronically firehoses its children with every vicious fantasy it can conceive, really wish to have its more lurid capital cases turned into media extravaganzas? If the McVeigh execution opens this video window, it will not be closed, and spectacular public executions will become a matter of the First Amendment and the Public's Right to Know. Maybe they...
...true death penalty for Timothy McVeigh and his kind would be quite different. The killers would not be killed. Upon conviction, they would be made to disappear, in the media sense: technically alive, but media-dead, allowed no contact with the outside, no interviews with anyone, ever, no books written about them, no prison manifestoes. The killers would be buried alive, would die in the mind of the world - a terrible suffocation...
...McVeigh would be killed without achieving the vindication of a dramatic death, the media martyrdom that is, of all things, what such people desire, the thought that consoles them and sweetens their departure...