Garza, a marijuana distributor, was convicted and sentenced to death in August , in Texas for the murders of three other drug traffickers.
Garza was denied review by the U. Supreme Court in late and was facing an execution date of August 5, The date was postponed until the Justice Department finished drafting guidelines for federal death row inmates seeking presidential clemency, which were issued in early August. Garza was offered the opportunity to apply for clemency under the new guidelines and a new execution date of Dec. Louis Jones, Black male, executed on March 18, The Supreme Court affirmed the conviction on June 21, Jones, a decorated Gulf War veteran who had no prior criminal record, claimed that his exposure to nerve gas in Iraq and post-traumatic stress from his combat tours contributed to his murder of Pvt.
Tracie Joy McBride in Texas. President George W. Associated Press, U. Daniel Lewis Lee, White male, executed on July 14, They all believed that executing Lee would be a miscarriage of justice given the life sentence imposed on his much more culpable co-defendant.
Judge G. Mark Berman, Trump administration carries out first federal execution since after late-night Supreme Court intervention , The Washington Post, July 14, Wesley Ira Purkey, White male, executed on July 16, Wesley Purkey was sentenced to death in Missouri federal court in for the kidnapping, rape, and murder of a Kansas City, Missouri, teenager. He experienced sexual, physical, and emotional abuse beginning at age 5, and began using alcohol and drugs as a child. He has been diagnosed with numerous mental illnesses, including Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder PTSD , bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and depression, and has multiple documented suicide attempts.
Dustin Lee Honken, white male, executed on July 17, Dustin Lee Honken was sentenced to death for the murder of two girls in Iowa in Delusion and paranoia fed McVeigh's politics, but his thinking was grounded in a familiar ideology, and developed by a sane and thoughtful mind.
Like thousands of other Americans, the bomber believed that government had become too intrusive, that the principles of America's founding fathers had been compromised, and that something should be done about it. Many of these people joined fringe patriot or militia groups.
And though he shared the fascination with self-defense that characterizes militia groups, McVeigh decided to take the offensive in his own private war with the government. No one can say for certain what led McVeigh to bomb federal building that day. But it is known that, for two years before his impulsive act, McVeigh drifted across America, restless and confused, in an apparent search for answers.
McVeigh grew up in Pendleton, N. His father worked in the local Harrison Radiator plant, while his mother toiled at a travel agency. When they split, McVeigh's parents told him and his two sisters that they could choose with whom to live.
Tim blamed his mother for the schism, and decided to stay with his father, whose long hours at the plant left him with little time at home. As a teenager, McVeigh developed two passions: computers and guns. He was intrigued by the early Internet of the mids and became an amateur hacker, once even breaking into a defense department computer.
His computer skills earned him commendations in school, but, after a brief period at a local community college, McVeigh chose to discontinue his formal education. His fascination with guns proved more lasting.
McVeigh became obsessed with reading about survivalism and Second Amendment issues. He acquired several guns, and set up a generator and a store of canned food and potable water in his basement so that he would be self-sufficient in case of emergency. One of the books he read, The Turner Diaries, a racist novel popular in neo-Nazi and militia circles about an angry man who blows up the FBI building in Washington, would become a long-time favorite.
McVeigh found work as a security guard, but the teenager spent his free time pursuing an obsession with survivalism. To escape the Buffalo area and have a place for target practice, McVeigh purchased a parcel of land in western New York. But though the getaway provided a respite, McVeigh still found his everyday life dreary. One day he showed up at home and informed his father that he was joining the Army.
McVeigh thrived in the armed forces, embracing the disciplined lifestyle he was expected to lead and finding comfort in the solidarity of his fellow recruits. His peers were impressed; one told Michel and Herbeck, "He was more or less, to me, the epitome of infantry. You know, the extremist, 'follow me,' kind of guy.
Whatever reservations McVeigh had didn't get in the way of his success -- he received the best score possible for infantry recruits on a test taken at the end of basic training. He was assigned to Fort Riley, Kansas, a training ground for the operation of tanks and other armored vehicles. Chosen to be a gunner in a Bradley fighting vehicle an armed transport- like a light tank , McVeigh scored an unprecedented out of points in a live-fire test. But McVeigh wouldn't get his chance.
Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, and he, along with thousands of other American soldiers, was sent to the Persian Gulf.
When allied generals finally decided to go on the offensive, McVeigh drew a dangerous assignment. His Bradley would spearhead a column of vehicles, leading the way for a tank and likely drawing the first enemy fire. It happened to be my vehicle," McVeigh later said Michel and Herbeck. In fact, Smith says, McVeigh had first seriously considered targeting the Federal Building in Phoenix, but "he decided that there were too many buildings around it.
April 19, , was the two-year anniversary of the government's siege of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. McVeigh was brought to tears while watching the death of about 80 members of the religious sect.
Then, when Congress banned certain assault weapons, McVeigh says, "I snapped. Smith, who speaks for the first time, with McVeigh's permission, says McVeigh is not mentally ill. As a young boy, McVeigh's parents fought often and fiercely, says Smith, and eventually McVeigh retreated into a world of comic books and superheroes, finding comfort in fantasy.
Smith adds, "Tim is really immature. He's almost childlike in some ways, boylike … But there's a certain gleefulness, a certain excitement that came from Tim when I examined him, about pulling this prank off downtown, as if it were a childish prank. After he was convicted and sent to Supermax, a federal prison in Florence, Colo.
Marshal who escorted McVeigh there. In their book, Michel and Herbeck reveal Kaczynski's reaction to his fellow terrorist. Born in Auckland, New Zealand, McLaren contracted a childhood hip disease that would keep him in hospitals for On June 2, , Babe Ruth, one of the greatest players in the history of baseball, ends his Major League playing career after 22 seasons, 10 World Series and home runs.
The following year, Ruth, a larger-than-life figure whose name became synonymous with baseball, was one of Sign up now to learn about This Day in History straight from your inbox. President Grover Cleveland becomes the first sitting president to marry in the White House on June 2, Cleveland entered the White House as a bachelor and left a married man and father of two. His new wife was a young woman 27 years his junior named Frances Folsom.
Set in at a fictional all-male preparatory school called Welton Academy, the film starred Robin Williams as John Keating, a charismatic English Leonard Lake is arrested near San Francisco, California, ending one of the rare cases of serial killers working together. Lake and Charles Ng were responsible for a series of particularly brutal crimes against young women in California and the Pacific Northwest during the On June 2, , Austro-Hungarian and German troops continue their attacks on the Russian soldiers holding Przemysl now in Poland , the citadel guarding the northeastern-most point of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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