Despite the failure of the Federal Bureau of Investigation initially to provide his lawyers with some 3,000 pieces of evidence garnered in the days after the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995, Timothy McVeigh will still probably be executed, if not as scheduled on May 16, then some time in the near future. In a room in a federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, McVeigh will be strapped to a gurney, a needle put in a vein in his arm and two doses of intravenous drugs administered, one to induce unconsciousness and another to stop his heart. His will be the first execution of a federal prisoner since 1963.
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