| Show ''''IA2 —The Herald Journal Logan Utah Monday June 11 ' I I f 2001 k " 14 ' - ' f f 4 ' Q Nation tr I 1 t Oklahoma IDity bomber bdes with i)is eyes open ' II r 7 ! s : S' v 1? -- 15 I & j rl r - J i'V - y I 7 The lethal injection was adminis-tere-d to McVfagh’s rigjit leg McVeigh made eye contact with his four witnesses then with the 10 ' media witnesses then squinted toward the tinted window shielding the 10 victims’ witnesses from his view He also stared straight at the victims in Oklahoma City by looking directly into the TV camera McVeigh wearing a white khaki pants and slip-o-n sneakers looked pale as he awaited death His hair wort cropped short A while sheet was pulled up tightly to his chest as he lay on the gumey When die first drug was administered he let out a couple of deep breaths then a fluttery breath His head moved back his gaze fixed on the ceiling and his eyes were glassy letter totireBufifafo ln tfW wotid Ntars McVdghsaid i ibhideased to one his attorneys aqd cremated and his ashps would be scattered in an undiSeltoed location In Oklahmna City Kathleen whose dauiter Ashkey and her husband's parents died in die bombing watched die executkm on closed-circuTV Afterward she held up a picture of her daughter and said: “I thought of her evfefy1 step of die way" She said there was no display of emotion in 'the Itidm SS dlie execution took place ‘ Sheaaid some of the victims were chuddmg that they knew McVeigh “Was (fatod before the hordes of media outside did !: "I don’t think anything can bring me any peace or anything from this I'll always face the loss of my daughter HI never get over that” saidTYeanar 38 “When I die and they lay me in my grave is when I’ll have closure Thai’s when Til stop T-sh-irt A VI i"- j a I- v rl r Angela RIcMnon toft of MqUud OWa huge her son Matthew Ik after placing flowers oh her mother's Norma Jean Johnson memorial chair at tha Oklahoma City National Memorial In downtown Oklahoma City this morning as she vtoltod the site prior to the execution of Timothy McVeigh who was convicted in the bombing thmktoed 168 people -- : - grieving for my daughter " Larry Whicher the brother of a bombing victim said McVeii looked straight intothe caiHera widi wdd blank stare in the moments before he died — “and that stare said volumes” “He had a look of defiance and that if he could he’d do it all over agamnJWhicher said He added “I don’ldunk he gave himself to the Lord I don’t think he repented and personally I think he’s inhelL’VvV Jay Sawyer who also watched the “ execution via TV said “Without ' saying anything htoot die find sooner dial we singly do this Nigh ' said WI amanymore” firmly convinced that it is ndt a question ofif can-11- wewillstopitissimdya question of when” : u--y y Tre-ano- ry it w 01 if i ' t i i' fit V' 4 -- t his-bbd- (AP)-JS- IL 1U3 ingsite Inv-icfcea- ' ix le-daw- He was pronounced dead at 8:14 am EDT by Warden Harley Lappin becoming the first federal prisoner executed in 38 years In Oklahoma City 232 survivors and victims’ relatives watched a closed-circu- it TV broadcast of the execution sent from Itare Haute in a feed encrypted to guard against inter- -' “ception Others embnfced each other rt the memorial marking the bomb-- -- ' ' years after Thnothy Me Veii slipped into die city unnoticed widi a 700-poun- d bond) hundreds waited to watch him die today " Some of those who survived or lost loved ernes whenMcVrii’s ' bomb blew apart the Alfred P Mur-ra- h Federal Building gathered in the n darkness to witness his execution via a secure closed-circu- it feed from the federal prism in Tferre Haute Their cars began streaming into the parking lot of the US Marshals’ hangar in southwest Oklahoma City early today Escorted by police care the buses took diem to the nearby Federal Transfer Center There some 300 survivors and victims relatives were to witness the execution on a widescreen television Martha Ridley who lost her daughter Kathy in the bombing and now cares for her two orphaned granddaughters waited in the darkness for lw bus to the center “It is definitely time for Mr McVeigh to go” she said “And the only dung I’m going to say after that is ‘Good I’m glad he’s gone’ “This is closure of Chapter 1 and beginning of Chqker 2 which is Ibny Nichols” she said “The pain never goes away You can hide u you can cover it up but it never goes away” Near the Oklahoma City National Manorial a silent vigil began without fanfare Hie vigil was to last 168 minutes — one minute fbr each victim killed in the April 19 t : ' i t OKLAHOMA'CTTY V:vlr v"l v fNg 'Vi if' N ' and families brace to view the execution 'Ot A- -r ' Survivors t v’ V is: TERREHAUTE Ind(AP)— The government Timothy McVeigh so despised executed him by chemical Ejection today taking hu life in exchange fbrthe 1681ives lost when 1r'heblew up the Oklahoma City federal boUding six yean ago He died silently with his eyes open Instead of making an oral statement Me Yeigh 33 issued a copy of the 1875 poem “Invictus” which concludes with the lines: UI am the master of iny fate I am the captain rJ 7- ur n afmysouL W f ' i ' Attorney General Jobs Ashcroft who authorized the: closed-circu- it telecast of the execution wasin Oklahoma City udien Timothy McVeigh was put to death a govern-mart nffiatl Mid Ashqppftdid not watch die closedcirciiit broadcast Ink wanted5fh bein ntcidmiM m i mxmmtmi dm bombing victims said die source qimddng on cm-h- e didon of anmmmtyiw The day before McVeigh’s execution his attorneys said that he was sorry for those ' who suffered but that he didn’t regret detonating a mas sive bomb at the Alfred P Murreh Federal Buikhng — the wont act of terrorism on m r PPIk: v it j5 1995 Mast About a dozen pebple stood before die “Jesus WbpT statue at St Joseph's Catholic Church with hands clasped in front of them Some boWBheiids jof ctenghaaijust like wtjeaJthgtAhowed him coming out of dut fiakty when V was first arrested His teeth were clenched his bps were pursed and just a Uuik stare It was die same ? today” Janice Smith whose brother Lanny Scroggins died in the bombing prayed with her children at the Oklahoma CityNational Memorial then left after getting word that' McVeigh was dead Kawer” she said “We don't hwa fn crnitinne with him tny- - more" McVeigh’s lawyer Robert Nigh somberly reminded reporters did the government not only executed the Oklahoma City bomber but also a soldier a son and ahrother He said therewas “nothing reasonable or k morel about what we did today” “tf there i anything good that can came from the execution of Tim Mcveigh it may be to help us realize - r ihprayerand greenbannersthat read “Remanbenng the Victims of ge 5YipIeoce” ' and Restorative Justice l' ' Heals”The Rev Melodee Smith of the Miami-base- d penalty Restorative Justice temer 4tor group I— Capital Cases said she was there to “express an alternative to an execu- tiondiat is being carried put in our name “Honoring die victims of violence can not be done by perpetuating the violence that caured it” - anti-dea- th Z ILSsoiL Death opposed: Marisa Hoff right and Brandy “He never I think has MHer console each other whle they ay In An area been the type-o- f guy to tell people what he thinks that U8 Penitentiary In Tferre Haute kid they want to hear” attorney in: “We are ready” Befare that Robert Nigh said “I think that he tries to be honest about his true feelMcVeii had four minutes to make a A 'Statement ing ofsympathy and empathy without being inaccurate about tbem” McVeigh received a mixture of sodium tmdpental to sedate him The UJS Bureau of Prison’s outthe execution for pancunmium bromide a muscle protocol fflkTanf fiat wtlipat flia iliiiplinigni lined every detail including the and hmgs and potassium chloride words die Warden must say to die which stops die heart US marshal before the injection ' 50-pa- ge TMnKightudiosestq)dauiter died in the bombing said Sunday that revenge had nothing to do with his plans to attend the closed-circu- it “I’m going there for a granddaughter who lost her mother at 2 12” he said “I personally can guarantee that McVeigh cannot kill another mm woman' or child” In brlof 6JXX)officen patrolled die pande Sunday last year compared with The pande ended Sunday with few reports of vudeace Revelers celduated die day by waving flags toad Mowing whistles and horns Kristina Perez of Lakewood NJ enjoyed “how eyetybody gets along — and Marc salsa r Anthony too” as the Not York-bor-n ainging star rode a red ThunderMid convertible down die parade route- Bushr&ide ‘suspects’ 400 has chided twins prez WASHINGTON (AP)—TheWhiteHoiise chief of staff says he Suspects PTesident BUah probably has said samdung like $ut” dghters-Wbqbwto his twin v V’ been in die news recently Wft ftauripddM: 5 infbe president : dieir daughters Jemu and nst few days at the Bushfsndi ih Crimfor Tbxas and aide Andrew Card raid “Fni tone ' diat this was a quality family weekend” The dauiters are on die cover of this week’s People magazine widi the headline “Oops They Did It Again” — media attention that ' r Card said was “sad” i: “WeshouM let that family deal with die i problems that most families in America have badtodea with without the scrutiny of die American puMic” Card said on “Fox News Barbara-taieatdie- - New theory: Pork cutlets iikely killed Mozart : CHICAGO (AP) Ftaget rheumatic fever kidney stones heart disease pneumonia and even poisoning What may have really killed Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart were pork cutlets The latest theory about the composer's untimely death on Dec 51791 at age 35 in Vienna suggests the culprit was likely trichi-i 5 'v'' si'Sundqr” - Strutting Askifhemiitsay“Cut4tout”ifhe ‘ Thousands turn out V1'' for peaceful r ' s J ta£® pafaddgv4v: MrdiFl Cwitw in SwrtHu1' NEW YCmK (AP) — Hundreds - -- ’ 5 5 i : - ? -- r ’V-- ' Death toli from tropical V istbrfn rises to 1 8 - HOUSTON (AP) s floodwatersfiom' Ttofacal Storm Altison began to recede ctews scrambled to open roads Monday that were : clogged by a weekend deluge tint left llBpeo-in jde dead rod did an (estimated $lMllii - TS 'damage ”t V --A- ' " v tltyjof Texas 5' : 5 Univer- - of thou- 44 days before his illness began as document- probation Jenna Bush a student at :v at Austin pleaded innocent to try-- sands of people lined New York City’s Fifth ed in a 1999 biogrwy : National for Avenue the on ID Puerto ' cutlets! Che else’s “What do I smell? pork Sunday ing to buy a nwgarita wife someone : was Paracfo Rican an event free the that of eat to Gusto delicious I a HesioextcourJd Day taste) (What your uJuly31 : V -"heaWi” Mozart wrote Thesisten were cited by ptriice after tiieir mayhem that maired hst yeisr’s celebration v its presence Visit May 29 to Mexican restaurant in Austin “If his final illness was indeed trichinosis : The to prevent a repeat of attacks last year in which whose incubation period is upto 50 days : Two weeks before the incident Jenna Bush : about 50 wmnen were sprayed with watei' Mozart may have unwittingly disclosed the Pfoaded nqctatert to underage drinking and alcohol Central in take counordered those very pork to She ofmol wta pacb precise cause of jhis death ddttgesrtripped gopedby Park Police Commissioner BerAardKerik said diops”Hirschmann said sehng’and perfbnntamunnnity service ‘A ’ T ’ “““d by eating undercooked pork infested by the worm and: could elain all of Mozart’s symptMns whidi rash limb oain and swellinsL T Quinonaa of Puerto Rico wavM to the crowd alonfl the route of the National Puerto Rican Day Parade bn New Yorka Rflh Avenue on Sunday faced a rimilar situation Card rrolied: “I sus--i probably said that to ' M (n: puaeo: Mias Untoaraa Dentoe Safa ground: Flood vlctlma are unloaded from a Texas National Guaid trock after they were ree-cued from their homes ta Houston on Sunday: is" to give their workers the day ofF today as the city recovers from floodwaters that reached rooftops in some neiiborhoods Texas officials on Sunday iwH tire death toll m the Houston area was up to 18 mainly victims The flooding caused one V drowi death in Louisiana sliere rain was still filling Sunday At Ieasf 1800 people had been flooded ' out of their homes in East Baton Rouge Parish f 'i |
