Execution Watch.

• Position: Timothy McVeigh wants his execution to be televised - Brief Article

Timothy McVeigh admits to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people, and he has shown no remorse. Now he wants the world to see his death sentence carried out on TV.

U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft doesn't want the May 16 execution to become a public spectacle, but he will allow viewing by 250 survivors and victims' relatives. The observation room at McVeigh's Indiana prison can accommodate only eight of them, so Ashcroft has cleared the way for the first federal execution to be seen on closed-circuit television. "I hope we can help them meet...