This MARC record contains five articles.

Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2002.

Originally Published: Even for Death Penalty Foes, McVeigh Is the Exception, May 4-6, 2001; pp. 1A-2A.

Originally Published: What Went Wrong?, May 6, 2001; pp. B7-B8.

Originally Published: The Prison Letters of Timothy McVeigh, May 2001; pp. 130-135.

Originally Published: "It's Over": McVeigh, Killer of 168, Dead, June 12, 2001; pp. 1A+.

"Even for death penalty foes, McVeigh is the exception" --- "Motherhood made Camille Alexander a firm opponent of the death penalty. Timothy McVeigh, the unrepentant Oklahoma City bomber, has changed her mind." (USA TODAY) This article focuses on the execution of Timothy McVeigh and describes how "the worst mass murderer in U.S history has, for now [2001] at least, changed the momentum of the national debate over the death penalty."

"What went wrong" --- "He is a soldier in his own strange, twisted war. He sees himself as a patriot, not for the Bronze Star he won in a faraway desert but for blowing up a federal government building in the heart of America. He cries for those who died in the flames of the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, not for the 168 people killed by the 7,000-pound bomb he unleashed in Oklahoma City." (ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL) This article focuses on Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh and speculates about the motivations behind the terrorist act that impacted the nation.

"The Prison Letters of Timothy McVeigh" --- "I expected the bogeyman. But something different happened. It was February 1996, less than a year after the Oklahoma City bombing, when I met Timothy McVeigh. He shook my hand and smiled, joked that Oklahoma radio devoted too much time to high school basketball, reminisced about winters as a kid in upstate New York. His cheerfulness seemed genuine--he explained that lawyers and reporters were about his only social outlet--but entirely out of place in the grey meeting room at the El Reno, Oklahoma, Federal Penitentiary. And entirely out of place from a man who had murdered 168 people and injured more than five hundred others." (ESQUIRE) These correspondences between Timothy McVeigh and journalist Phil Bacharach provide a brief glimpse into the mind and motivaitons of the Oklahoma City bomber.

"It's Over": McVeigh, Killer of 168, Dead" --- "They heard a voice say 'Testing 1-2-3,' and bang, he was there, strapped to a gurney, wrapped up in a sheet and staring back in a way that, as always with Timothy McVeigh, forced the viewer to supply his or her own meaning. To some of the 232 people who watched the Oklahoma City bomber's execution on a closed-circuit television hookup here Monday [June 11, 2001], the man whose bomb killed 168 of their friends and loved ones was dying as he had lived: projecting upspoken malice with his eyes and face." (USA TODAY) This article describes McVeigh's execution and details the reactions of those who witnessed the event via closed-circuit TV.

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