[quote name=\'fostergray82\' date=\'Mar 14 2004, 02:10 PM\']I'm probably missing the point, but wasn't McVeigh's execution televised? I want to say Pay-Per-View offered to show it.[/quote]
A few people wanted it to be televised (a la Pay-Per-View and internet streams), but the judge, I believe it was, said it wasn't gonna happen. There was a closed-circuit broadcast to some auditorium in, I think, Norman, OK, where a few select people (relatives of deceased, survivors, etc.) were allowed to watch the execution live.
How do I know this? I was unlucky enough to listen to this all day long when it happened, thanks to the Oklahoma City media coverage and our cable being out. What a day.