Execution draws big audience

Oklahoma City - About 250 people among the hundreds of surviving victims of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing have expressed interest…

Oklahoma City - About 250 people among the hundreds of surviving victims of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing have expressed interest in witnessing the scheduled execution of bomber, Timothy McVeigh, federal officials said yesterday.

The agency that runs US federal prisons is now weighing how to accommodate the large number, officials said, possibly by carrying the May 16th execution in an Indiana prison by closed circuit television to a gathering place in Oklahoma City.

McVeigh (32) awaits execution for detonating an April 1995 truck bomb that gutted a federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people and wounding hundreds.