When was timothy mcveigh execution

Attorney General Ashcroft directed that the case be tried capitally without consulting the tribal government. Mitchell was found guilty on May 20, and sentenced to death on September 15, Keith Nelson, White male, executed on August 28, Nelson was convicted of kidnapping a girl from her Kansas home and murdering her in Missouri.

On November 28, a jury recommended the death penalty for Nelson, and on March 11, , a federal judge imposed the death penalty. William LeCroy, Jr. The carjacking was the sole basis for federal jurisdiction in the case. However, the trial court read the death-penalty statute expansively and the appeals court affirmed that interpretation of the statute. Christopher Vialva, Black male biracial , executed on September 24, Vialva and his co-defendant Brandon Bernard were convicted and sentenced to death in June for the carjacking and murder of a white couple on a remote parcel of federal land near Fort Hood in central Texas.

Vialva was 19 years old at the time of the murders, and Bernard was Four younger teenagers, aged 15 and 16, also pled guilty to federal charges relating to the crime. Vialva was the first African American executed in the modern era of the federal death penalty and the first person in 72 years to be executed by the federal government for a crime committed while he was a teenager.

Orlando Hall, Black male , executed on November 19, Hall was charged alongside Bruce Webster in Fort Worth, Texas with the abduction, sexual assault, and beating murder of a year-old black female. They were tried separately. Hall was sentenced to death in November Webster was sentenced to death in June Brandon Bernard, Black male, executed on December 10, A federal jury in Waco, TX, convicted Bernard and his co-defendant Christopher Vialva in June , of carjacking and the murder of an Iowa couple on a remote parcel of federal land near Fort Hood in central Texas.

Both were sentenced to death. The marriage was rocky, and after several separations, the family split up for good when Tim was an adolescent. Tim stayed with his father, and the two girls headed south to Florida with their mother. Another crack on the idyllic facade of McVeigh's childhood was bullying. Some ridiculed the tall and gawky teen with the nickname of "Noodle McVeigh," according to "American Terrorist.

McVeigh won a partial college scholarship, and after graduating from high school in , he decided to attend a two-year business college near his father's home. But he soon dropped out and began a series of odd jobs -- first at a Burger King and later as an armed security guard. His love for guns, going back to his boyhood when he enjoyed target practice with his grandfather, Ed McVeigh, became a bigger part of his life.

One day he sent off for a book advertised in the back of a gun magazine called "The Turner Diaries. It tells the story of a gun enthusiast who reacts to the government's tightening of restrictions on private firearms by bombing a federal building. McVeigh often referred to the book and introduced it to other people he met. He took to Army life immediately. He was the best always. He was called up for combat in during the Persian Gulf War, where he distinguished himself as the best shot in his platoon.

But McVeigh was not prepared for the rigorous evaluation program of the Special Forces and gave up his bid to join the elite group on the third day. Shortly afterward, he resigned from the Army. McVeigh began a life of wandering from state to state, buying and selling weapons on the gun-show circuit and preaching a message of the evils of government.

All three shared a bond of the love of guns and anger at a government they believed was trying to take away their rights and weapons. In the summer of , the FBI went after white separatist Randy Weaver on charges of selling illegal sawed-off shotguns.

During a standoff at Weaver's cabin in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, his wife and son were killed. The incident would become a rallying point for McVeigh and others immersed in the militia movement. One priest said he believed the convicted bomber would go to heaven, saying he didn't deserve to be demonized. Another said he was "on his way to hell" because of his unrepentance.

More than bombing survivors and relatives of victims watched a closed-circuit telecast of the execution at Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City. Terre Haute penitentiary: What you need to know. The execution was scheduled for 7 a. He was strapped to a gurney before being taken to the death chamber, where he received two IV injections of a lethal cocktail of chemicals.

McVeigh was permitted to make a "reasonably brief" statement, but he declined. Instead, McVeigh left a final message through a hand-copied poem, with his signature at the bottom. World Agents for Change.

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