Timothy James McVeigh (April 23rd 1968 - June 11th 2001) exploded at the time of a attack a truck trapped with Oklahoma City the April 19th 1995, making more than 168 dead. He was member of a group of antigovernment Extrême right-hand side, the Patriot Movement .
Biography
McVeigh took part in the first war of the Gulf, for which it received the decoration of the star of bronze,It was stopped the day of its attack because it did not have number plates on its car and which it had on him a firearm charged.
He was accused the June 2nd 1997 for the murder of eight federal employees who died in the explosion. The June 13rd 1997, the jury recommended to the court of justice that McVeigh undergoes the Capital punishment. After two years of legal procedures, it was carried out by Lethal injection, the June 11th 2001, with the federal prison of High Ground in the Indiana. He is the last man to be condemned to the capital punishment by the federal government of the United States since Victor Feguer, the March 15th 1963, in the Iowa.
It should be noted that these attacks gave rise to a sign néo Nazi, 168: 1, which literally means the “score” of the camp 168 (the attack) 1 (the capital punishment).
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External bonds
- Oklahoma City, 10 years later.
- Polemic on the monitoring of the extreme right-hand side in the United States
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