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What did the killer do the days before being executed for the murder of 168 people? What was his last meal, last words and last activities?
Timothy James McVeigh (April 23, 1968 – June 11, 2001) was an American domestic terrorist who masterminded and perpetrated the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The bombing killed 168 people, including 19 children, injured 684, and destroyed one-third of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building .
McVeigh had not made any final words, no apology to the families of those who died. Indeed, before his execution, the disillusioned young man had expressed regret he had not killed more people.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. - Timothy McVeigh was executed Monday morning - silenced forever after passing up his last chance to apologize for the Oklahoma City bombing. "Inmate McVeigh died at 7:14 a.m. Central Daylight Time. This concludes the execution," Warden Harley Lappin told witnesses inside the death house at the U.S. Penitentiary here.
Defiant to his final breath, Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh died today with his eyes open and his mouth shut. In a statement written in his own hand, he declared, “My head is bloody,...
McVeigh, a former U.S. Army soldier, was convicted of 11 counts of murder, conspiracy and using a weapon of mass destruction after detonating a fertilizer bomb in front of a downtown Oklahoma...
Final Statement of Timothy J. McVeigh. written prior to his execution in Terre Haute, Indiana. June 11, 2001. (Federal Bureau of Prisons) The statement consists entirely of the poem Invictus written by William Ernest Henley in 1875. Primary documents relating to the McVeigh trial.
Timothy James McVeigh died with his eyes open. When the curtainscame back, he made eye contact with his people who came to supporthim.
Timothy McVeigh killed 168 people in Oklahoma in a planned hit on a federal building. He refused to give any final words instead providing a poem he copied by hand
Final Statement of Timothy J. McVeigh. written prior to his execution in Terre Haute, Indiana. June 11, 2001. (Federal Bureau of Prisons) The statement consists entirely of the poem Invictus written by William Ernest Henley in 1875.