He is to become the first federal inmate executed since 1963. The execution has reopened the divisive debate on the morality of capital punishment. The human rights group Amnesty International plans a news conference at 10 a.m. Thursday in Washingtoin urging President Bush to halt Timothy McVeigh's execution. McVeigh's execution by lethal injection has the support of four out of five Americans, according to the poll. Death penalty support has generally been at about two-thirds in recent months, but it can vary widely depending on how the question is asked.
Whites are more likely than blacks and men more likely than women to support the death penalty.
More than one-fourth of death penalty opponents in the survey said they nonetheless support the execution of McVeigh. The poll of 1,004 adults was taken May 2 through Sunday and has an error margin of plus or minus 3 percentage points. It was done in the early ages in Europe. We don't need to publicize murder by the state. The poll suggested that fears of terrorism in this country have dropped a bit since April 1995, when just over half said they weren't worried about an attack.