Oklahoma Bomber's Attorneys Appeal for Postponement of ExecutionUS attorneys for Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh on Thursday asked an appeals court to postpone his execution again.The attorneys, who appealed to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals to set aside a ruling on Wednesday that denied McVeigh a reprieve, argued that they need more time to review nearly 4,500 pages of materials released by the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) last month. "All we are asking for is time to do what we need to do," attorney Christopher Tritico said. McVeigh's attorneys said that U.S. District Judge Richard Matsch used the wrong standard when ruling that the execution should proceed next week. Attorney Nathan Chambers, who met with McVeigh on Thursday about his chances of avoiding execution, said that his client is " well and aware that the appeal has been filed." A three-judge panel of the appeals court was appointed to consider the appeal. McVeigh, 33, is set to die by injection on Monday morning at a federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana. McVeigh was convicted two years after the April 19, 1995 bombing that killed 168 people and injured hundreds in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma. He is to become the first federal inmate executed since 1963. McVeigh had originally been scheduled to die on May 16, but U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft postponed his execution until June 11 after FBI failed to turn over thousands of documents to his defense team. |
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