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Timothy McVeigh's execution is one thing. The unrepentant mastermind of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that claimed 168 lives would be missed by almost no one. Americans, even many who generally oppose the death penalty, overwhelmingly support its use when it comes to a mass murderer who viewed the...
If you were John Ashcroft, who would you rather have at the head of the line as federal executions resume for the first time since 1963 -Timothy McVeigh or Juan Garza? Unfortunately for the Attorney General, he really had no choice but to push back McVeigh's scheduled execution this...
Even if the FBI's conduct proves to have been more careless than venal, the charges call attention to more serious problems that have led to 95 exonerations in capital cases since 1973, problems such as corrupt prosecutors, lying jailhouse snitches, incompetent forensic experts, junk science and racial prejudice. Will...
For more about the delay of the execution and for an audio interview with McVeigh, go to time.com
I was impressed by how quickly John Ashcroft jumped in and postponed the execution. He said, "Our system of justice requires basic fairness, evenhandedness and dispassionate evaluation of the evidence and the facts." Some may say the Justice Department paid a high price for its integrity: the FBI is again...