QUOTE: Although never a
supporter of the death penalty, Apple feels now that anything less than death
would be a slap in the face to her brother and the 167 others who were killed
in the bombing. To her, she says, it boils down to the concept of making
choices—one of the most important, basic parts of life: [Timothy McVeigh] chose to park that truck, put in his earplugs, and walk
off. When he did that, he took away the rights of 168 people to ever make
decisions of their own again. My brother and the others can't elect to work, or
play, or spend time with their families. So I don't want McVeigh to have the
freedom to even get a drink of water in his cell. If those 168 victims can't
make the most basic of choices, why should he? [He] has to pay for the choice
he made on April 19, 1995—and he has to pay with his life.
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