During the days before his execution in that Indiana city, T-shirts with his face on them have been selling briskly. The slaying of Tim McVeigh promises to be an unprecedented pageant of capital punishment. Advance stories predict that 2,000 journalists will descend on Terre Haute for the festivities. In theory, the audience will be limited. But some of the viewers will surely be on national TV to describe what they saw.
Bootlegged videos are likely to find their way to a wider audience.
A lot of babies perish due to social conditions that could be prevented by a shift in government priorities. Meanwhile, the Children's Defense Fund says, 10.8 million of the nation's children are lacking health insurance. With the corporate-dominated state functioning as a serial killer every day, news outlets should shine a bright light on its innocent victims.