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Article: MURDER VICTIMS' FAMILIES SPEAK AGAINST DEATH PENALTY
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 7, 2001
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Federal authorities continue to debate whether Oklahoma City
bomber Timothy McVeigh should be put to death next week, but a group
of murder victims' families convening at Boston College in Newton
this week have their own verdict: Let McVeigh live.
"Killing Timothy McVeigh is not going to help me or my healing
process," said Bud Welch, 61, whose 23-year-old daughter, Julie, died
in the April 1995 attack that killed 168 people.
"It would be an act of vengeance and rage, when what [the bombers]
did was an act of vengeance and rage. That's why my little girl is
dead," said Welch.
Welch, a national spokesman for the Murder Victims' Families for
Reconciliation, will join hundreds at a four-day ...