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Article: Some families, survivors opt to watch execution from Oklahoma City; others don't.(The Dallas Morning News)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- June 11, 2001
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OKLAHOMA CITY _ As Timothy McVeigh lay dying Monday, many of those whose lives he shattered visited the scene of his violence.
Some sought serenity, which the pastoral Oklahoma City National Memorial was designed to give. Others still want answers to painful questions, and the McVeigh execution did little to provide them.
Jimmie Boldien Jr., who lost his aunt, Laura Jane Garrison, could have watched McVeigh's death by injection on closed-circuit TV. But he chose instead to stand on the memorial's sweeping lawn among empty bronze chairs _ one for each of McVeigh's 168 murder victims.
"I just thought I needed to be here at the time of his ...