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In a recent spate of litigation, Jonathan Lee Riches© (JLR) has filed suit against a number of individuals, states, and an opinion of the Supreme Court. In a complaint entitled "Blowing Up My Life" the JLR is suing Timothy McVeigh. Was he not executed a number of years ago? No matter. Some highlights [...]

... University anesthesiologist, grew interested in lethal injection at the time of Timothy McVeigh's 2001 execution. Just before McVeigh's death, Heath began reading newspaper ... , after the execution itself, Heath read accounts of tears appearing in McVeigh's eye, a sign that McVeigh might not have been properly anesthetized, and that prompted ... similar findings in other states. In California, the case of Michael Angelo Morales v. James E. Tilton also pits a murderer and rapist of a high-school girl ...

... Gilmore and John Spenkelink. Kendall opposes the death penalty but not just because of its inherent immorality. After Timothy McVeigh was executed for his role in the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Kendall suggested that executing McVeigh ... death penalty, Morrison & Foerster was honored by Death Penalty Focus after it was successful in having the death sentence of James Lee Spencer of Georgia overturned. Spencer was moved off of death row after he was found to be ...

... studies exist on the long-term effects of watching an execution. "There is enormous individual variation," says James Acker, a criminal-justice professor at SUNY Albany, who coedited a book on the issue. While some witnesses say ... judicial process. Kathleen Treanor, whose daughter and in-laws died in the Oklahoma City bombings, watched Timothy McVeigh's execution. While alive, "he had forum after forum ... to spew out anger, pain and suffering," she says. "I just was glad to shut him up." Dianna ...

... allegations that Doerhoff was involved in federal executions surfaced in a legal filing in September, amended last month, in the appeal of James Roane Jr. He was sentenced to death in February 1993 for his participation in a series of drug-related murders in Richmond, Va. The federal government had not executed a prisoner in 38 years before June 11, 2001, when Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber, was put to death by injection at the federal death chamber in Terre Haute, Ind. Two ...

... barred a twenty-seven-minute video containing some 200 photographs of the victim set to the music by the Beatles and James Taylor. More significantly, the Texas Criminal Court of Appeals reversed the introduction of a seventeen-minute video montage - also ... found the tape prejudicial and vacated the defendant's sentence.) The petition also says that during the trial of Timothy McVeigh, the judge barred the prosecution from introducing wedding photographs and home movies as victim impact evidence. ...

... silly column today, but at least he ends with something I can agree with: The unavoidable fact is that there is a rich history of violence on the fringes of both sides of the American political spectrum. The right, as liberals are fond of pointing out, has Timothy McVeigh and James Earl Ray. The left has the Puerto Rican nationalists who opened fire on the floor of Congress, animal-rights nuts and eco-terrorists. If Nancy ...