250 Seek to Witness McVeigh Execution
About 250 people among the hundreds of surviving victims of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing have expressed interest in witnessing the scheduled execution of bomber Timothy J. McVeigh, federal officials in Oklahoma City said.
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons is weighing how to handle the large number, officials said, possibly by airing the May 16 execution in Terre Haute, Ind., on closed-circuit television to a gathering place in Oklahoma City.
McVeigh, 32, awaits a lethal injection for detonating a bomb that gutted the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, killing 168 people and wounding hundreds.
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