Timothy McVeigh, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Timothy McVeigh

American domestic terrorist

Date of Birth: 23-Apr-1968

Place of Birth: Lockport, New York, United States

Date of Death: 11-Jun-2001

Profession: security guard, soldier, terrorist, mass murderer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Timothy McVeigh

  • Timothy James McVeigh (April 23, 1968 – June 11, 2001) was an American domestic terrorist who perpetrated the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people and injured over 680 others.
  • The bombing was the deadliest act of terrorism in the United States prior to the September 11 attacks, and remains the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in United States history. A Gulf War veteran, McVeigh sought revenge against the federal government for the 1993 Waco siege that ended in the deaths of 86 people, many of whom were children, exactly two years before the bombing, as well as the 1992 Ruby Ridge incident and American foreign policy.
  • He hoped to inspire a revolution against the federal government, and defended the bombing as a legitimate tactic against what he saw as a tyrannical government.
  • He was arrested shortly after the bombing and indicted on 160 state offenses and 11 federal offenses, including the use of a weapon of mass destruction.
  • He was found guilty on all counts in 1997 and sentenced to death.McVeigh was executed by lethal injection on June 11, 2001 at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana.
  • His execution was carried out in a considerably shorter time than most inmates awaiting the death penalty, as most convicts on death row in the United States spend an average of 15 years there.
  • Terry Nichols and Michael Fortier were also convicted as conspirators in the plot.
  • Nichols was sentenced to eight life terms for the deaths of eight federal agents, and to 161 life terms without parole by the state of Oklahoma for the deaths of the others.
  • Fortier was sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment and has since been released.

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