On this date, June
11, 2001, Timothy McVeigh A.K.A as the Oklahoma City
Bomber was executed by lethal injection at the Federal Correctional Complex in
Terre Haute, Indiana. He was the terrorist who detonated a truck bomb in front
of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995.
Commonly referred to as the Oklahoma City Bombing, the attack killed 168
people and injured over 600. It was the deadliest act of terrorism within the
United States prior to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and remains
the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in United States history.
Timothy McVeigh
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