TY - BOOK ID - 77888431 TI - Killing McVeigh PY - 2012 SN - 0814724558 081472454X 9780814724545 9780814724552 9780814796108 0814796109 1479856673 9781479856671 PB - New York, NY DB - UniCat KW - Oklahoma City Federal Building Bombing, Oklahoma City, Okla., 1995 KW - Victims of terrorism KW - Capital punishment KW - Domestic terrorism KW - Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building Bombing, Oklahoma City, Okla., 1995 KW - Bombing of the Oklahoma City Federal Building, Oklahoma City, Okla., 1995 KW - Murrah Federal Building Bombing, Oklahoma City, Okla., 1995 KW - Bombings KW - Terrorism victims KW - Victims of crimes KW - Abolition of capital punishment KW - Death penalty KW - Death sentence KW - Criminal law KW - Punishment KW - Executions and executioners KW - Terrorism KW - Psychological aspects. KW - Rehabilitation KW - Psychology KW - Social aspects KW - McVeigh, Timothy KW - McVeigh, Tim KW - Makveĭ, Timoti KW - Imprisonment. KW - Trials, litigation, etc. KW - Psychological aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77888431 AB - On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh detonated a two-ton truck bomb that felled the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people. On June 11, 2001, an unprecedented 242 witnesses watched him die by lethal injection.In the aftermath of the bombings, American public commentary almost immediately turned to “closure” rhetoric. Reporters and audiences alike speculated about whether victim’s family members and survivors could get closure from memorial services, funerals, legislation, monuments, trials, and executions. But what does “closure” really mean for those who survive—or lose loved ones in—traumatic acts? In the wake of such terrifying events, is closure a realistic or appropriate expectation? In Killing McVeigh, Jody Lyneé Madeira uses the Oklahoma City bombing as a case study to explore how family members and other survivors come to terms with mass murder. As the fullest case study to date of the Oklahoma City Bombing survivors’ struggle for justice and the first-ever case study of closure, this book describes the profound human and institutional impacts of these labors to demonstrate the importance of understanding what closure really is before naively asserting it can or has been reached. ER -