[Uncle Vlad]

I know this is going to make someone ofer me more tinfoil for my hat, but in light of the fact that mass murderers and other monsters sit on death row for 20 years or more, doesn't it seem odd how fast they executed Timothy McVeigh?

[Loyal Buckeye]

Didn't McVeigh ask to be executed?

[rellimpank]

--I think it seemed odd to a lot of us.

Even though he purportedly turned down any extensive appeal procedure, it was still fast for an execution --especially a federal one---

[eno_]

For me the clincher is that McVeigh mixed and loaded the bomb by himself.

Try mixing ONE barrel of dry fertilizer with anything, by hand. I'm pretty fit, and I know how beat I am after mixing just a couple wheelbarrow loads of cement for foundation piers.

It would have taken three people, at least, to make the bomb.

[ThreePuttinDude]

Uncle Vlad, that's not strange at all to me.
It never passed the smell test, in my opinion.

[Smokin' Joe]

Another speedy deed was the demolition of the remnants of the building and closing the site. (Basically, the destruction of a crime scene.)

Mebbe tinfoil hat material, but the only quicker removal of a crime scene I can think of happened at Waco...also fenced off, and where critical evidence was 'lost'.

[rbg81]

As I recall, McVeigh dropped all his appeals and wanted to die. I doubt that he (or anyone with no fear of death) would ever have dropped dime on any of his accomplices. Good riddance to bad rubbish, I say.

[heartwood]

yes. even though he didn't appeal.

[Leatherneck_MT]

I know this is going to make someone ofer me more tinfoil for my hat, but in light of the fact that mass murderers and other monsters sit on death row for 20 years or more, doesn't it seem odd how fast they executed Timothy McVeigh?

Because he was a political criminal not just a murderer. He was a danger to the establishment in Washington that had to show that if you attack the US Government you will be executed post haste.

This attack on that building was a rebellion, the Govt could not let it stand and would not let it be dragged out.

[ops33]

Timothy McVeigh waived all appeals on his death sentance.

[ladyjane]

doesn't it seem odd how fast they executed Timothy McVeigh?

Understatement.

[ReignOfError]

I know this is going to make someone ofer me more tinfoil for my hat, but in light of the fact that mass murderers and other monsters sit on death row for 20 years or more, doesn't it seem odd how fast they executed Timothy McVeigh?

Odd in comparison to what? McVeigh was the first Federal prisoner executed since 1963, so there aren't a lot of comparable recent cases. Then there's the fact that he dropped his appeals.