Oklahoma city bomber Timothy McVeigh was put to death...

Oklahoma city bomber Timothy McVeigh was put to death by lethal injection at the Terre Haute federal penitentiary in Indiana at 7a.m. local time. McVeigh was executed for the April 19th, 1995 bomb attack on the Alfred P. Murrah federal building that killed 168 people and wounded hundreds more. It was the first federal execution since 1963. McVeigh's execution, originally scheduled for May 16th, had already been postponed due to the revelation that the F.B.I. had withheld evidence from McVeigh's defence lawyers during the trial in which he was sentenced to death. A request for a stay of execution filed by McVeigh's defence team in order to study thoroughly the over 4,400 documents was denied by both U.S. district judge Richard Matsch and the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. McVeigh chose last week not to appeal the ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court. His death was watched by approximately 230 survivors and relatives of the victims of the bombing on close circuit TV, in a room near the scene of the catastrophe in Oklahoma city. Ten survivors and victims' family members were chosen by lottery to witness the execution. Federal prison authorities placed a needle in Timothy McVeigh's right leg, pumping a deadly stream of drugs into his veins. He took 14 minutes to die. Witnesses said McVeigh lifted his head and made eye contact with them before the drugs took effect. Then he looked at the ceiling and slowly closed his eyes. He made no final statement. On April 28 Pope sent a letter to President George W. Bush to save Timothy McVeigh. On June 7, Hands off Cain sent an appeal to President Bush, signed by several Nobel Prize, to save McVeigh.