/ 19 April 2001

LIVE WEBCAST OF MCVEIGH EXECUTION?

A US federal judge in Indianapolis, Indiana, plans to decide on Friday whether to allow a live webcast of the execution of condemned Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. Judge John Tinder’s decision will be posted on the court’s website court officials said on Wednesday. McVeigh, 32, is scheduled to die by lethal injection May 16 at the US federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, south of Chicago, for the April 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, which killed 168 people. A Florida-based Internet company, Entertainment Network Inc., is suing to allow it to webcast the execution. The company, better known for its live webcasts of female college students at the site Voyeurdorm.com, plans to charge a $1.95 subscription fee to screen out minors.