United States of America: The illusion of control: "Consensual" executions, the impending death of Timothy McVeigh, and the brutalizing futility of capital

United States of America: The illusion of control: "Consensual" executions, the impending death of Timothy McVeigh, and the brutalizing futility of capital

Index Number: AMR 51/053/2001
Date Published: 23 April 2001
Categories: USA, Americas

This report, calling for a moratorium, highlights the case of Timothy McVeigh, who is scheduled to be put to death in the US Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, on 16 May 2001. It also contains an annotated list of the 90 "consensual" executions carried out in the USA since 1977, and includes statements by the US organization, Murder Victims Families for Reconciliation, and Bud Welch, whose daughter was killed in the Oklahoma City bombing.\n\n