Thursday, July 14, 2011

Did Timothy McVeigh receive a "standard" burial, after his execution.?.?

Unmarked graves have long been used to bury executed criminals. More recently, the practice has been to cremate and secretly scatter the ashes of notorious criminals in some anonymous place. This was the fate of Nazi war criminals such as Hermann Goering, Fritz Sauckel, Julius Streicher and Adolf Eichmann. Cremation and secret scattering of the ashes has the additional effect of removing all possibility of there being a grave for someone to visit in the future. In the case of Timothy McVeigh a newly passed Federal Law prohibited McVeigh from being buried in a military cemetery, and no one claimed his body, so it was cremated and given to his lawyer, who scattered the ashes at an undisclosed location. According to reports there had been a request to send the body to Saudi Arabia to be buried however the Saudis declined so he was buried at sea to prevent any one attempting to make his grave a shrine.

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