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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. Achim Josef Marino, in a letter to the Texas governor CBS News Correspondent Bob McNamara on the confession received in Feb. 1998, but never forwarded. A letter in which a man confessed to a rape and murder for which two other men are now serving time remained in the Texas governor's office for more than two years, reports CBS News Correspondent Bob McNamara. The attorneys for the two men serving life sentences for the 1988 crime say the letter and new DNA evidence proves their innocence.