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THE BATTALION
McVeigh execution date set for May
The Oklahoma City bomber will be first federal execution in 28 years
OKLAHOMA CITY
(AP) — Federal officials set
a May 16 execution date
Tuesday for Oklahoma City
bomber Timothy McVeigh,
who was convicted of mur
der and conspiracy for the
bombing that killed 168
people in the Alfred P. Mur-
rah Federal Building.
The Federal Bureau of
Prisons said it had notified
McVeigh of the decision.
The 32-year-old McVeigh,
who is on death row at a fed
eral prison in Terre Haute,
Ind., has said he does not
want any more appeals, but
he has reserved the right to
seek executive clemency.
He let the deadline for re
suming his appeals expire
Thursday and prison officials
started planning for his lethal
injection.
U.S. Bureau of Prisons
spokesman Dan Dunne said
officials initially delayed
selecting an execution date
until they could plan the
event, including meeting
the needs of the victims’
relatives and survivors of
the blast.
The April 19, 1995,
bombing was the worst act of
terrorism ever committed on
U.S. soil.
The federal government
has not put a prisoner to
death since March 15,
1963, when it executed
Victor Feguer for murder
and kidnapping.
McVeigh’s attorney,
Nathan Chambers, said
McVeigh has made no deci
sion on whether to seek
clemency.
He can be for
given but he
must pay his
restitution.”
— Betty Robins
A.P. Murrah Federal
Building employee
“T don’t know yet,” he
said. “That’s something Mr.
McVeigh has under consid
eration.”
He said McVeigh has 30
days to file a petition for
clemency with the Justice
Department’s Office of Par
don Attorney, which will
make a recommendation to
the president.
Betty Robins, who'was
working in the building at
the time of the bombing,
said the execution date was
fine with her.
‘"‘My feeling are as long
as it is not the anniversary
date, it will be fine,” she
said from the memorial at
the bombing site, where she
works as a volunteer. “Since
the anniversary will be past
almost a month, it will be
fine.
“He can be forgiven but
he must pay restitution, and
his death will be that resti
tution. But you can never
pay for that kind of crime.
But this is close as it can
comes. I just wish he would
tell people why before he
dies and what he wanted to
accomplish.”
McVeigh’s father, re
tired Pendleton, N.Y., fac
tory worker William
McVeigh, has said that his
son explained his decision
to the family. He told The
Buffalo News, “I guess his
feeling is, he knows he’s
going to die — it might as
well be sooner than later.”
Others speculated
McVeigh wants to become a
martyr for anti-government
causes, or wants to mock
the U.S. government with
his petition for clemency,
knowing how long it has
been since federal authori
ties put someone to death.
Clinton awards two posthumous Medals
of Honor to Roosevelt and Civil War vet
WASHING
TON (AP) — A
former president
best known for his
charge up San
Juan Hill during
the Spanish-
American War
and a former slave Clinton
whose courage
during the Civil War was ignored by
the Army for almost a century got
posthumous Medals of Honor from
President Clinton.
“May we continue to live up to the
ideals for which both Andrew Jack-
son Sfuith and Theodore Roosevelt
risked their lives,” Clinton said Tues
day as he presented the medals to the
Smith and Roosevelt families in a
ceremony in the Roosevelt Room of
the White House.
Before a painting of Theodore
Roosevelt in battle gear and on
horseback, Clinton described in
glowing terms the former president
who, as a lieutenant colonel in the
Spanish-American War, led his men
up a Cuban hill and “changed the
course of the battle and the Spanish-
American War,” Clinton said.
“TR was a larger-than-life figure
who gave our nation a larger-than-life
vision of our place in the world,” Clin
ton said. “Part of that vision was
formed on San Juan Hill.”
Roosevelt openly campaigned for
the Medal of Honor, America’s high
est military decoration, for his perfor
mance under fire on July 1,1898. The
action became known as the Battle of
San Juan Hill.
Roosevelt led his regiment of vol
unteers, the Rough Riders, into ac
tion alongside Army regulars up Ket
tle Hill, one of two hills comprising
San Juan Heights. The Rough Riders
then advanced up San Juan Hill with
as few as four men but arrived after
regulars had taken it.
The Roosevelt family will donate
the award back to the White House,
Roosevelt’s 58-year-old great-grand
son, Tweed Roosevelt, said in accept
ing the award. It will be displayed in
the Roosevelt Room along with
Theodore Roosevelt’s Nobel Peace
Prize, which he was awarded in 1906
for his role in settling the Russo-
Japanese War of 1904-05 with a
treaty signed Sept. 5, 1905, in
Portsmouth, N.H.
“We think it will serve as a won
derful icon for future presidents,
when they take foreign dignitaries or
other people into the Roosevelt
Room for private luncheons, to be
able to turn and point to the mantel
piece and say, ‘This is what we as a
country stand for: the Medal of Hon
or and the Nobel Peace Prize.’ Peace
and honor,” Tweed Roosevelt said.
Alongside the Roosevelt fami
ly was the family of Cpl. Andrew
Jackson Smith of the 55th Massa
chusetts Volunteer Infantry, a for
mer slave who joined the Union
Army during the Civil War. The
55th Massachusetts was the sister
regiment to the 54th Massachu-
tt
Sometimes it takes
this country a while,
but we nearly al
ways get it right in
the end. ”
— Bill Clinton
U.S. president
setts, memorialized in the 1989
movie Glory.
During the Battle of Honey Hill
in South Carolina, Smith saved his
unit’s colors after the flag-bearer
was killed in a bloody charge. De
spite heavy gunfire, Smith held the
flag high throughout the battle and
kept the 55th Massachusetts from
losing its colors to the Confederates.
“In one five-minute span, the
55th alone is said to have lost over
100 men, but they never lost their
colors because Corporal Smith car
ried them through the battle, expos
ing himself as the lead target," Clin
ton said.
Although Smith was first nomi- i
nated in 1916, he was rejected for the
Medal of Honor even though 80 oth
er soldiers who saved their unit’s col
ors were awarded the honor after the
Civil War. One was father of world
War II hero Gen. Douglas MacArthur.
“Sometimes it takes this country
a while, but we nearly always get it
right in the end,” Clinton told the |
Smith family. “I am proud that we
finally got the facts and that for you
and your brave forebear, we are fi
nally making things right.”
Smith’s family thanked Clinton
for finally coming through for their
ancestor.
His 93-year-old daughter, Caruth
Smith Washington, came to the
White House to see her father’s
dream of winning the Medal of
Honor finally come true. “I am very
proud to be his daughter,” she told
reporters after the ceremony.
“Only in America can the sons of
a slave and the daughters of a slave
receive the same honor at the time
that a president’s sons and daughters
receive theirs,” said Andrew Bow
man, Smith’s 65-year-old grandson.
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