TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – McVeigh received a chemical injection from the government he despised, and was pronounced dead at 8:14 a.m. EDT, becoming the first federal prisoner executed in 38 years. He died silently, with his eyes open.
McVeigh, 33, issued a copy of the 1875 poem “Invictus,” which concludes with the lines: “I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.”
Offering no trace of remorse, Timothy McVeigh went to his death Monday with the same flinty look he showed the world when he was first arrested for killing 168 people in the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building.
List Of Official Witnesses To McVeigh Execution
MCVEIGH’S PERSONAL WITNESSES
Nathan Chambers, defense attorney
Cate McCauley, former member of defense team
Lou Michel, Buffalo News reporter, co-author of McVeigh book
Robert Nigh Jr., defense attorney
VICTIMS’ REPRESENTATIVES
Sue Ashford, uninjured survivor who worked in the federal court across the street from the bombed Oklahoma City federal building.
Ronald Brown, Keystone Heights, Fla., son-in-law of victim Robert G. Westberry, a federal agent.
Peggy Broxterman, Las Vegas, mother of victim Paul Broxterman, federal agent.
Kay Fulton, Red Wing, Minn., sister of victim Paul Ice, U.S. Customs Service agent.
Paul Howell, Oklahoma City, father of victim Karan Howell Sheperd, Federal Employees Credit Union employee.
Frederick Kuehner, Oklahoma City, father of victim Rona Kuehner-Chafey.
William “Bill” McCarthy, Des Moines, Iowa, brother of victim James McCarthy, director of HUD office in federal building.
Anthony Scott, U.S. Army recruiter on fourth floor of federal building.
MEDIA POOL WITNESSES
Susan Carlson, WLS Radio, Chicago
Linda Cavanaugh, KFOR-TV, Oklahoma City affiliate
Nolan Clay, The Daily Oklahoman
Karin Grunden, Tribune-Star, Terre Haute, Ind.
Rex W. Huppke, The Associated Press
Kevin Johnson, USA Today
Diana Penner, Gannett News Service
Byron Pitts, CBS-TV
Shepard Smith, Fox TV
Crocker Stephenson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
GOVERNMENT WITNESSES
Warden Harley Lappin
U.S. Marshal Frank Anderson
Others unnamed
