McVeigh lawyers will apply for a stay of execution

Attorneys for Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh said they plan as early as Thursday to file a court motion to seek a postponement of the rescheduled June 11 execution.
May 30: Rob Nigh, one of McVeigh’s lawyers, declined to provide details of the planned court filing, but he has said repeatedly that the legal team cannot complete its review of more than 4,000 pages of newly provided documents from the FBI´s investigation of the case by June 11, the date of McVeigh’s execution. The FBI had revealed six days prior to McVeigh’s first scheduled execution on May 16th that they were in possession of evidence which they had not handed over to his defence team. It was later revealed that the FBI had known of the existence of the missing documents since January.The mishandling of evidence in such a high profile case has infuriated many Oklahoma victims who are seeking what they call ‘closure’. The attorney General John Ashcroft had already ruled that those who were not selected in the random lottery for the 10 spectator seats in the execution chamber would be able to see McVeigh die via close circuit television.
The revelation of missing evidence in such a high profile case leads one to invariably question the fate of those who are set to die quietly, without the eyes of the world following their plight and ready to pick up on procedural errors. Nathan Chambers, another lawyer for McVeigh’s defence, stated that he had reason to believe there were additional documents that he had not yet received.
Ms. Watney, spokesperson for the Attorney General’s office declared the statement as unfounded adding, "The Attorney General has been assured by the F.B.I. that all the documents have been turned over."
Rick Ojeda, a former FBI agent, who was interviewed on the CBS program 60 minutes, seemed to undermine Mr. Ashcroft´s assurance that nothing in the documents could have helped Mr. McVeigh, saying that some of the material included "leads that should have been investigated."