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June 13, 2011
Ten years ago this past weekend, Timothy McVeigh was executed, having been found guilty on June 2, 1996, on 11 counts of murder and conspiracy. On August 14, 1996, he was formally sentenced to death, and that sentence was carried out on June 11, 2001, the first execution of a federal prisoner in the United States since 1963.
This yellow legal pad was issued to Oklahoma City’s KFOR NewsChannel 4 anchor Linda Cavanaugh by Terre Haute prison officials, along with the Federal Bureau of Prisons Execution Protocol card. She was one of ten media observers chosen at random through a drawing to witness the execution. More than 650 miles away in Oklahoma City, 232 survivors and family members watched on closed-circuit television.
Cavanaugh’s notes from McVeigh’s execution are on display in Reporting Terrorism, the Museum’s current special exhibit. Visit the Museum to learn about the ways in which our system of justice worked to identify and prosecute the perpetrators of the bombing
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