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Convicted of the 1995 bombing of a U.S. government building in Oklahoma City, Timothy McVeigh is the first person in 38 years to face federal execution. Find out more about his case, federal executions and other criminals on the nation's death row. We firmly believe that timely assistance from the Mexican consulate would have meant the difference between life and death for Miguel Flores. The death chamber in Huntsville, Texas. A Mexican-born killer was executed Thursday amid protests from foreign countries that say he was denied his right under an international treaty to contact the Mexican consulate after his arrest.