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Timothy McVeigh  

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  • Timothy James McVeigh (1968–2001), an American terrorist and mass murderer who sympathized with the militia movement, was responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995, an act that killed 168 people, including 19 children, and injured more than 680 others. Before his execution by lethal injection in 2001, McVeigh was incarcerated in the U.S. [Source: The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America: An Encylopedia; McVeigh, Timothy]

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