TURNS OUT that the execution will be televised after all. On May 16, almost 300 survivors and relatives of victims of the Oklahoma City bombing will watch on closed-circuit television as Timothy McVeigh is strapped to a table and given a series of lethal injections. It will be the first federal execution since 1963.
Few can doubt that McVeigh deserves pain and suffering for the 168 people he killed by bombing the Oklahoma City federal building. It is ironic, then, that the death penalty gives McVeigh virtually everything he could wish for. First, his death will be quick and painless. Second, and more importantly, it will make him a martyr for other anti-government extremists and grant credibility to his cause.
The survivors of the bombings and their families who have chosen to watch the execution want to see McVeigh suffer. Their desire for revenge is wholly understandable. McVeigh wrought tremendous pain and suffering upon them and upon their loved ones, so they believe that seeing him killed will bring them some sort of satisfaction. It is some sort of justice, an eye for an eye.
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