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| McVeigh to seek delay of June 11 execution, attorneys say |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 06/01/2001 |
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Timothy McVeigh will seek a delay of his June 11 execution for the Oklahoma City bombing and ask for a hearing to investigate federal investigators' 'fraud upon the court,' his lawyers said Thursday. Attorney Robert Nigh said it wasn't easy for McVeigh to make the decision. 'He was prepared to die,' Nigh said outside the federal prison where McVeigh is imprisoned. 'There are still critical documents about this investigation being withheld by the FBI,' lawyer Richard Burr said. 'We must get to the bottom of this. This proceeding is intended to do that.' Another McVeigh attorney, Nathan Chambers, had stayed in Denver to file the documents seeking the delay. McVeigh's execution, initially set May 16, was postponed by Attorney General John Ashcroft after the Justice Department turned over more than 4,000 FBI documents it admits should have been given to McVeigh's lawyers for his trial. McVeigh faces a lethal injection for the 1995 bombing that killed 168 people and injured hundreds of others. He had been scheduled to be the first federal prisoner executed in 38 years. After abandoning his appeals, McVeigh admitted his guilt in a book released in April. He had earlier asked a federal judge to stop further appeals and requested an execution date. He also said in a recent letter to The Houston Chronicle that he acted alone, and there was no John Doe 2, a possible suspect that surfaced early in the bombing investigation. Nigh said there was nothing in the court record that reflected those beliefs. 'If there were other people involved and evidence of their involvement is credible ... then that evidence is something Tim McVeigh's jury certainly would have wanted to have,' Burr added. Ashcroft has said that the FBI documents do nothing to bring into question McVeigh's guilt, and the Justice Department will do everything possible to avoid a further delay. On Wednesday, Ashcroft reiterated his vow to fight any further delay of McVeigh's execution. 'A jury determined that the death penalty is the appropriate punishment for McVeigh, and failure to carry out that sentence would deny justice for the victims of this crime and for the American people,' Ashcroft said. |
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