WASHINGTON (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - Federal officials have set a May 16th execution date for Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, the U.S. Justice Department said Tuesday.
McVeigh will be given a lethal injection at Terre Haute Penitentiary in Indiana where he is being held on death row, officials confirmed.
McVeigh was informed of the decision in writing Tuesday, according to the statement by the Justice Department.
The former soldier still has the right to appeal to the U.S. president for executive clemency, but he let pass a deadline for filing any further legal appeals in his case last Thursday as expected.
McVeigh had previously said he wished to waive his rights to any further legal challenges. "I think my client may be tired of the judicial process," McVeigh's attorney, Dennis Hartley, said last week.
McVeigh's execution will take place just a few weeks after the sixth anniversary of the April 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
Some 168 people, including several children, were killed in the blast, and hundreds of others were injured.
McVeigh drove an explosives-laden truck into the building, and was sentenced to death in August 1997 for his part in the attack.
Suspicion for the Oklahoma City bombing initially fell on Muslims. The allegations were later proved false.
