[Wolfstar]

McVeigh essentially committed a form of suicide, because he insisted that there be no appeal of his death penalty conviction. The reason so many killers sit on death row for years is because of the various automatic appeals on up the food chain of courts. McVeigh exhibited all the earmarks of a zealot, much like the Islamist radicals.

[aristeides]

Remember that, after it came out in the spring of 2001 that the FBI and DOJ had been concealing so much evidence, McVeigh authorized his lawyers to seek a stay of execution and a new trial. The DOJ did grant a month's stay, but then refused to delay any longer. I think that the new evidence was sufficient to justify a new sentencing phase, if not a whole new trial. But what was really strange was that the month did not allow McVeigh's lawyers and the courts to make a proper study of the new evidence, such as to allow them at least to make a reasoned judgment on whether to grant a new sentencing phase. The haste in executing McVeigh was, in my opinion, a gross miscarriage of justice.