Twelve or 15 are hard-core full of vengeance, and it's eating them up. They want relief and it won't happen. The execution, he said, threatens to be the biggest media event in this nation's history. It's a staged political event, that's all an execution is. Welch plans to be in Terre Haute that day, but aside from granting interviews, he said he will not participate in the protests or vigils in respect to the families who support McVeigh's execution.
Governors support it.
They pound the podium and show us they're the baddest in the jungle. He argues against the death penalty as a deterrence to murder, saying the facts show it doesn't deter anybody. He added that the death penalty is only handed out to defendants who can't afford their own defense. We like to think of ourselves as leaders in this country when it comes to civil rights. We're years behind a lot of European countries and our neighbors to the north, Canada.