In 1866, McVeigh's great-great-grandfather Edward McVeigh emigrated from Ireland and settled in Niagara County. McVeigh was born on April 23, 1968, in Lockport, New York, the only son and the second of three children of Irish Americans Mildred 'Mickey' Noreen ( née Hill) and William McVeigh.

6 Plan against federal building or individuals.

5 With Nichols, Waco siege, and radicalization.

His execution, which took place just over six years after the offence, was carried out in a considerably shorter time than most inmates awaiting the death penalty. McVeigh was executed by lethal injection on June 11, 2001, at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana. He was found guilty on all counts in 1997 and sentenced to death. 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 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. history.Ī 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, as well as the 1992 Ruby Ridge incident and American foreign policy. It remains one of the deadliest acts of domestic terrorism in U.S. The bombing was the deadliest act of terrorism in the United States prior to the September 11 attacks. Timothy James McVeigh (Ap– June 11, 2001) was an American domestic terrorist responsible for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people, 19 of whom were children, and injured more than 680 others, and destroyed one third of the Alfred P. military attacks in foreign countries Ĭonspiracy use of a weapon of mass destructionĭestructive use of explosives or incendiary devicesĨ federal counts of first-degree murder of 8 federal law enforcement officersġ60 state counts of first-degree murder of the others.Īmmonium nitrate and nitromethane truck bomb foreign policy and civilian casualties from U.S. Retaliation for the Ruby Ridge, Waco siege, other government raids, U.S. USP Terre Haute, Terre Haute, Indiana, U.S.

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