Oklahoma City Bombing: American Terror

Timothy McVeigh, the perpetrator of the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, was executed on June 11, 2001, by lethal injection, at the federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana (not in Oklahoma, since it was a federal case). He was 33 years old. He was the first prisoner executed by the U.S. federal government since 1963. Death penalty still exists in Oklahoma. The state uses lethal injection as its official method (and has adopted controversial drug protocols in the past). Oklahoma has one of the highest execution rates per capita in the United States. As of 2025, the death penalty remains in use, although it is the subject of legal disputes and public debate.