Didn’t take long for McVeigh either.
Nor for Giuseppe Zangara. He shot Chicago Mayor Cermak on 15 February 1933. He fried on 20 March 1933, 33 days later.
I have the gun in my hand. I kill kings and presidents first and next all capitalists.
You give me electric chair. I no afraid of that chair! You one of capitalists. You is crook man too. Put me in electric chair. I no care!
That was done under new language that Orin Hatch inserted into a bill to insure that McVeigh couldnt have decades in jail like your typical death row inmate.
Hatch was absolutely furious about this crime.