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| McVeigh Warden to Run Federal Bureau of Prisons |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 02/24/2003 |
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The official who supervised the execution of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh will become director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons later this year, Attorney General John Ashcroft said Tuesday. Harley Lappin, director of the bureau's Mid-Atlantic Region, was warden of the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind., when he presided over the executions by injection of McVeigh and drug kingpin Juan Raul Garza during an eight-day period in June 2001. McVeigh's execution, on June 11, was the first federal execution since 1963. Lappin will become the Bureau of Prisons' seventh director since it was established in 1930 when he replaces Kathleen Hawk Sawyer, who plans to retire April 3, said bureau spokeswoman Linda Smith. It will be Lappin's ninth move in a 17-year career with the prisons bureau. He has served as the Mid-Atlantic regional director since 2001. Sawyer, in 10 years as director, has seen the federal inmate population double, the bureau's staff increase by 50 percent and the number of prisons increase from 72 to 102, with 17 more under construction. Lappin joined the bureau in 1985 as a case manager. He holds a bachelor's degree from Indiana University and a master's from Kent State University. |
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