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More than 100 boxes of materials in the McVeigh case were never turned over to defense lawyers. If an error of this magnitude can occur in the most carefully prosecuted death penalty case in years, how can we feel secure about the quality of justice in the hundreds of death...
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...
Timothy McVeigh?s lawyers face a daunting task: Read through more than 3,000 documents, determine whether they contain information relevant to their case, and convince their client that he does, in fact, want to pursue a new route of appeal. And all this needs to take place before June...
And Anthony Porter, a mentally ill man who was just two days away from execution when the real killer was persuaded to confess—not by prosecutors, but by a private investigator working with journalism students at Northwestern University.
But it never came. As McVeigh prepares for his execution on May 16, the militia movement that identified with his anti-government rage is dying off too. The last presidential election robbed the movement of two of its favorite villains: Bill Clinton and Attorney General Janet Reno. Now middle-aged...