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McVeigh Gets a Stay of Execution For the Moment
The Oklahoma City bombing case is the largest in federal history but, despite its high profile-and a judge-s order to turn over everything to McVeigh-s defense-some 3000 pages of evidence have mysteriously turned up just 5 days before his scheduled execution. We talk to McVeigh-s former attorney, a federal prosecutor and the husband of one of 168 victims who died in the bombing 6 years ago. What are the prospects now for McVeigh-s execution? What-s wrong with the FBI? Newsmaker: Justice Department Press Conference on Delay of Execution -- Attorney General John Ashcroft has postponed for one month the execution of Timothy McVeigh-who-s admitted planting the bomb that killed 168 people and wounded hundreds of others six years ago. We talkj with Johnathan Alter who is covering the story for Newsweek magazine. Reporter's Notebook: Blind Ambition on Everest -- When Eric Wine-mayer was at the Mt. Everest base camp, communications were set up by the National Federation for the Blind/Allegra Everest Expedition. He-s now further up Mt. Everest and-despite heavy weather and howling winds-he-s planning to go for the summit this weekend. We talk with Eric to follow his adventure.
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readThe Oklahoma City bombing case is the largest in federal history but, despite its high profile-and a judge-s order to turn over everything to McVeigh-s defense-some 3000 pages of evidence have mysteriously turned up just 5 days before his scheduled execution. We talk to McVeigh-s former attorney, a federal prosecutor and the husband of one of 168 victims who died in the bombing 6 years ago. What are the prospects now for McVeigh-s execution? What-s wrong with the FBI?
Justice Department Press Conference on Delay of Execution -- Attorney General John Ashcroft has postponed for one month the execution of Timothy McVeigh-who-s admitted planting the bomb that killed 168 people and wounded hundreds of others six years ago. We talkj with Johnathan Alter who is covering the story for Newsweek magazine.
Blind Ambition on Everest -- When Eric Wine-mayer was at the Mt. Everest base camp, communications were set up by the National Federation for the Blind/Allegra Everest Expedition. He-s now further up Mt. Everest and-despite heavy weather and howling winds-he-s planning to go for the summit this weekend. We talk with Eric to follow his adventure.