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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...fade away." There is such a thing as cruel and unusual punishment; the concealed show in Terre Haute was unusual, but not exactly the work of Vlad the Impaler. Is there something preposterous about executing a mass murderer in such comfort? What if he'd been wheeled in a tumbrel through the streets of Oklahoma City, to be execrated and spat upon on the way to a guillotine on the spot where the Alfred P. Murrah Building once stood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Killing McVeigh Gave Him Power | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

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