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Company argues for McVeigh netcast
http://www.vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm?QID=177788
Tuesday, 17 April 2001 14:50 (ET)
INDIANAPOLIS, April 17 (UPI) -- A Florida-based Internet company that
wants to live stream the scheduled May 16 execution of Timothy McVeigh
argued its case Tuesday in a federal court.
Attorney General John Ashcroft already has said he will not permit any
broadcast of the McVeigh execution, except for a closed-circuit viewing for
the families of the 168 people killed by McVeigh in the 1995 explosion of
the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
Entertainment Network Inc. officials of Tampa, Fla., say the decision is
wrong and they asked U.S. District Judge John Tinder to issue an order
against the Department of Justice that would open the way for a broadcast on
the Internet.
"There aren't any overriding government issues that would justify the
prohibition of audio/visual images of the execution," attorney Derek Newman
argued.
The lawsuit seeks permission for ENI, which operates adult-oriented Webcam
sites, to send one person into the execution chamber with a hand-held video
camera that would provide live pictures of the execution to an ENI web site.
Newman said the company also would be willing to consider taking a video
feed from the closed-circuit video that victim family members will witness.
Newman said such a Webcast would improve the free flow of information
related to the scheduled death by lethal injection of McVeigh.
Officials with the correctional center in Terre Haute, Ind., where McVeigh
is being held and where the execution will take place, said they fear any
type of broadcast could incite inmates to act violently.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Gerald Coras argued permitting the company to have
such pictures would amount to special treatment since no other media
organization would be allowed similar rights -- even though 10 reporters
will be allowed to witness the event from the execution chamber.
"The Constitution does not require that those who wish to record ...
executions be allowed to do so," Coras said. "The legislatures of every
state that has executions, and the federal government, have decided that
executions should not be public spectacles."
ENI officials admit they would charge $1.95 for the right to view the
execution and donate the proceeds to charities established for the memory of
the Oklahoma City bombing victims.
Tinder said he expects to make his ruling in the case by Friday.
The McVeigh case has resurrected the debate over whether executions should
once again become public spectacles.
Modern executions are conducted within prison walls and out of the view of
the public although McVeigh himself has said he would support the televising
of his own death.
Some death penalty opponents have said they would support such a
broadcast, believing people would be so disgusted by what they see that they
would then turn against capital punishment.
Opponents of broadcasts believe that such events would give McVeigh an
additional forum for his extremist views.
McVeigh has said he orchestrated the federal building bombing as a protest
against the 1993 standoff in Waco, Texas, between the FBI and David Koresh's
Branch Davidian followers.
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