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...message. In discussing the Bush administration’s warning to countries suspected of harboring terrorists, one speaker raised the example of domestic militia groups and the Ku Klux Klan. “We harbor those people,” he announced, and we harbored Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh??who, coincidentally, was executed last June...
Last week senior officials at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) learned of 3,000 pages of documents connected to the Oklahoma bombing trial that had not been previously turned over to Timothy McVeigh??s lawyers as required by law. Despite McVeigh??s own confession of guilt, the loss of thousands of documents in the prosecution of his case is deeply concerning...
According to the Congressional testimony yesterday of FBI Director Louis J. Freeh, nothing in the newly discovered documents is material to the question of McVeigh??s guilt. But such near-mistakes are anything but rare in the American legal system. In 1981, Clifford Henry Bowen was sentenced to death in Oklahoma despite 12 alibi witnesses after prosecutors failed to turn over exculpatory evidence. Similar stories could be told for 16 other Americans in the last 25 years, all of whom were convicted after exculpatory evidence was withheld from the defense, either in error or intentionally. In a sense...
Maybe I’m the only person in America who’s sick of Timothy McVeigh??s long-chinned mug. It certainly seems that way, now that all the pundits, pontificators and pop philosophers have taken him back into their headline-happy hearts, using his impending exit from this mortal coil as an excuse to bloviate on their favorite topics—the (im)morality of the death penalty, the perils of home-grown government haters, the dangers of terrorism, the inadequacies of the criminal justice system and onward down the list...
...Timothy McVeigh??s execution approaches on May 16th under the presidency of George W. Bush who, as governor of Texas, oversaw the execution of 152 people, more than any other state governor in history. It is unlikely that members of the mob clamoring to watch McVeigh die will take the time to read The Stranger, but they should. And so the students in the steady flow from Harvard to the investment banks should pause and read Upside Down. What is the value of their work, what is it they accomplish if, “in 1997, of every...