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...McVeigh's pending execution, and Attorney General John Ashcroft's guidelines for its limited broadcast (only via closed-circuit signal to victims and survivors in Oklahoma City) have raised a plethora of questions entwining freedom of the press and the cold hard facts of capital punishment. None are readily answered...
...await tales from those who return from the viewing room, where most of us, gratefully, will never go. I wouldn't want to be the reporter having to put a microphone in the face of one of the mothers coming out of that bleak, nameless room in Oklahoma City. But somewhere along the way I'd like to know: Did you find a compensating grace in McVeigh's death, some sliver of serenity that eluded you before? Are you wiser, are you lighter, is there one less drop of grief in your ocean of sorrow? Perhaps some crimes...
...years later, Brooks Douglass, by now an Oklahoma state senator, stood clasping his sister's hand in a cramped, brightly lit room at the state prison. Brooks had pushed for legislation allowing crime victims to witness executions, and now he and Leslie were watching Steven Hatch, one of their parents' killers, die by lethal injection. As poison flooded Hatch's veins, Brooks and Leslie re-lived their parents' deaths. Brooks describes it as a healing experience. When Hatch died after seven minutes, Brooks says, "I was happy... Witnessing the execution was an assurance that this is over...
...Brooks is working to give the same sense of closure to survivors of the 1995 bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City and to relatives of the 168 killed in the explosion. The bomber, Timothy McVeigh, is scheduled to die by lethal injection May 16 at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Ind. With seating for survivors and relatives limited to eight, a victims' group had sought to force the U.S. Bureau of Prisons to beam the execution by closed-circuit TV to an Oklahoma auditorium where they could watch en masse. Some 250 survivors and relatives say they...
...with clips from the 1999 electrocution in Florida of Allen Lee Davis available on the Internet, executions are beginning to sneak into public view. McVeigh himself wants to go all the way. In a letter sent this month from his 10-foot-by-12-foot cell to the Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman, he wrote, "It has been said that all of Oklahoma was a victim of the bombing. Can all of Oklahoma watch?" Federal prison officials quickly denied his request...