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Today in History: Timothy McVeigh executed for Oklahoma bombing

6/11/2026

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On June 11, 2001, Timothy McVeigh, the architect of the 1995 Oklahoma City truck bomb that killed 168 people and injured hundreds, was put to death by lethal injection at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute. The execution fulfilled his sentence for murder, use of a weapon of mass destruction, and related crimes.

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On June 11, 2001, Timothy McVeigh, the architect of the 1995 Oklahoma City truck bomb that killed 168 people and injured hundreds, was put to death by lethal injection at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute. The execution fulfilled his sentence for murder, use of a weapon of mass destruction, and related crimes.