McVeigh’s Execution

Re “A Meticulous End Planned for McVeigh,” April 5:

I wish to preface my opinion by stating that I am not opposed to capital punishment, but what is to be gained by the execution of Timothy McVeigh? I hear about “closure,” but for whom? Certainly not the family and friends of those who died in the worst terrorist attack the United States has experienced, to date. They are beyond that with time, I pray. His execution will not change anything for them and may in fact dishonor their lost ones.

Closure remains only for Mc-Veigh himself, which he desires by his waiver of all further appeals, which he will gain on his execution date, May 16.

Because of the heinous crime that he has admitted to without remorse, I personally would deny him his wish and let him live the remainder of his life to ponder and reflect on what he has done. What greater punishment could there be than to let him live and prevent him from dying as a martyr to his deluded cause of “government conspiracy”?

Life imprisonment, without any possibility of parole, would deprive him of his goal of martyrdom and possibly prevent other people of his ideology from repeating his terrible crime against innocent people. His death will only represent another misguided “injustice” in the minds of way too many people who feel like him. Deny them and deny him his last remaining perverse hope for immortality.

MICHAEL L. GALLIGAN

Victorville

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I think the execution of McVeigh should be televised on pay-per-view with all the proceeds going to the families of the victims.

TOM SLED

Grover Beach