Timothy McVeigh
 

Now that his execution is over, how do you feel about what happened.
Personally, I cried all morning as they were rehashing all the details of the people who died. Whether just or not, it was definitly the end of a chapter of our history.....

I woke up this morning to reports of how the execution looked - way too gruesome and gory for TV.

I cried this morning reading and watching about the victims.

Part of me feels that he got justice. Part of me feels the American public isn't any better than he is because we killed him.

He wanted to die. Woudlnt' it have been more of a punishment to leave him be in prision forever?

Yes, Juniorgrrl! They should've let him rot in prison. Dying was the easy way out, like the Columbine guys.

I'm glad that he is dead. I'm glad that so many family and friends of the victims are now able to find closure and start the healing process (as quoted by like a zillion - figure of speech - people who witnessed the execution).

If he had any sort of conscious, then yes, maybe letting him suffer by thinking about his crimes would have done some good. But he no more cares about those people today than he did when he murdered them. He wanted to die, and from the latest poll, Americans wanted him dead (7-1 on my way to work at 7:45 EDST). I certainly did!

I had to smile at an idea I heard over the weekend -- someone said that he should be tied down to the spot where the building was, and the victims family and friends should get to stone him with the stones from all the rubble that he created. Very painful -- no it wasn't my idea -- just made me smile to think about justice served.

Anybody watch "That's My Bush" on Comedy Central? If not, there was an episode where his frat buddies came to visit, and they wanted to watch a real execution - so Bush arranged for a "fake" prisoner to be "executed" so his buddies would leave -- turns out that he ended up killing a real prisoner -- but the funniest part was when Bush said to the Priest to read from the Bible -- the Priest started in with the readings, and Bush grabbed the Bible and said to the prisoner "You have the right to die like a little bitch, and may your soul burneth in hell!" -- it was so hilarious! Love that show -- but that basically sums up how I feel about Timothy McVeigh.

My heart goes out to the families of the victims and also to the survivors.

I feel that the victims and survivors were robbed. Timothy McVeigh didn't deserve to die in peace. His victims died violent deaths.

If he had died 168 deaths, then maybe justice would be served.

AXOAlum and OTW--I agree totally with you two. He mercilessly, brutally killed 168 people--ONE death is nothing compared to what he did to these innocent people and their families. Justice has been served--unfortunately, I would have also liked a more violent death. Life imprisonment, as AXOAlum so eloquently stated, would have done nothing--absolutely nothing--for this heartless beast. Let him rot in hell. Sorry.

Anyone who even thought of having his ashes spread over the Oklahoma City Bombing Site (can you believe that!!!!!!!!!!) is one a$$hole who deserved not only the death penalty, but more.

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I tend to get the most odd notions in my pathetically small brain sometimes, this one...a movie parallel.

We've all seen the movie Seven (7)

You know how the serial killer got his last wish by being murdered,
completing the 7th sin.

I bet McVeigh loves the fact that America is overtly expressing it's own hypocrisy
Like us killing him was the final expression he wished to convey

Obviously he didn't want to get caught and killed
but once it hapened- i nearly guarentee this occurred (despite his pleas for an appeal, initially)

.....just some random thoughts

Trust the fact that he is, or will, pay for his crimes... death is only an escape from THIS existance. Karma has a way of evening these things out.

I totally agree with a few of you. He got what he wanted. He stated many times before that he wanted to die. So in this case how has justice prevailed? I believe he should have spent the rest of his life and more in jail.
DGPhoney~

I wish they had let him have a life sentance instead. Only because he wanted death. In my opinion, giving him the death sentance was like a kid getting sent to their room--where they have a tv, vcr, toys, video games, a computer, and all sorts of gadgets. It wasn't a punishment, it was the final end to the message he wanted to send.

I thought of the reference to 7 (Se7en, Seven, or however you want to spell it)

Did he get caught, or did he turn himself in? I don't remember, it's been so long ago now.

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Steve Corbin
Lambda Chi Alpha
Theta Kappa Chapter
Rose-Hulman Inst. of Tech.