-Caveat Lector- FRIDAY APRIL 13 2001 Execution of McVeigh to be on CCTV http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-114238,00.html BY BEN MACINTYRE MORE than 250 relatives of people killed in the Oklahoma City bombing will be permitted to watch the execution of Timothy McVeigh, the convicted mass murderer, on closed-circuit television, John Ashcroft, the US Attorney-General, ruled yesterday. McVeigh, 32, has been sentenced to die by lethal injection on May 16 for the 1995 blast, which killed 168 people including 19 children; it was the worst terrorist attack on US soil. He will be the first person to be put to death under federal law since 1963 and his execution will be the most widely watched in America since the public hangings of the 19th century. Mr Ashcroft said that he was making special provisions to enable the victims ' relatives to see the execution because there is room for only ten such representatives in the gallery overlooking the death chamber at the penitentiary at Terre Haute, Indiana. About 2,000 family members and survivors are eligible to see McVeigh die. The execution will be broadcast live to a secure facility in Oklahoma City. Applications have already been filed from 250 victims and relations. "The Oklahoma City survivors may be the largest group of crime victims in our history," Mr Ashcroft said, adding that viewing the execution of McVeigh would enable them to "close this chapter of their lives". Those watching from the undisclosed location in Oklahoma City will be able to hear McVeigh' s last words as he is strapped down and killed. Mr Ashcroft said the Justice Department and the Bureau of Prisons would work closely with the FBI to foil any attempt to record or pirate the closed-circuit transmission. Encryption technology will be used to protect the broadcast from theft or interference. The relatives of victims traditionally witness executions in America if they wish to, but the scale of the crime in this case has posed serious problems for the Justice Department, raising questions about when an act of the courts becomes a public spectacle. Mr Ashcroft also said that McVeigh could give 15-minute telephone interviews in the remaining weeks before his execution, but he urged the media to show restraint in what is broadcast. "As an American who cares about our culture, I want to restrict a mass murderer's access to a public podium," Mr Ashcroft said. "As Attorney-General, I don't want anyone to be able to purchase access to the podium of America with the blood of 168 innocent victims. Please do not help him inject more poison into our culture." McVeigh, who has said that he wants a fully televised public execution, can have six witnesses present: two lawyers, a spiritual adviser and three relatives or friends. The prosecution claimed that McVeigh was motivated by an intense loathing for the Government and a desire to avenge the 1993 siege of the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, in which more than 80 people died. McVeigh, who has exhibited no signs of remorse, recently dropped all appeals against his sentence, effectively asking to be put to death as soon as possible. His lawyer said that he showed no interest in a last-minute clemency appeal. Mr Ashcroft said that he had decided to authorise the private broadcast after meeting some of the blast victims. "My time with these brave survivors changed me. What was taken from them can never be replaced nor fully restored. I hope we can help them to meet their needs to close this chapter in their lives," he said. 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