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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 be executed by the federal government. Find out more about his case, federal executions and other criminals on the nation's death row. Learn about the death penalty in the United States. Relatives of some of the 168 people killed have expressed concerns that McVeigh's desired death should not be too close to the anniversary. Looking back on the worst act of domestic terrorism in American history.