McVeigh to Be Executed May 16, Barring Presidential Clemency
Federal officials set a May 16 execution date Tuesday for Timothy J. McVeigh, who was convicted of murder and conspiracy for the bombing that killed 168 people in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons issued a news release saying it had notified McVeigh of the decision.
McVeigh, 32, who is on death row at a federal prison in Terre Haute, Ind., has said he doesn’t want any more appeals, although he has reserved the right to seek clemency from the president.
McVeigh allowed a deadline for resuming his appeals to expire Thursday and prison officials started planning his lethal injection.
The April 19, 1995, bombing was the worst act of terrorism ever committed on U.S. soil.
Prosecutors said McVeigh, a decorated Gulf War veteran, was motivated by hatred of the U.S. government and a desire for revenge for the April 19, 1993, deaths of about 80 people in the siege at the compound of the Branch Davidian sect near Waco, Texas.
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