WASHINGTON -- Documents that were not given by the FBI to lawyers for Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh contained no evidence to further delay his scheduled June 11 execution, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft said on Thursday.
"June 11 is the date on which the execution will be carried out," Ashcroft said at a news conference as he released a report he said showed that thousands of pages of newly released FBI documents held nothing to question McVeigh's guilt.
Ashcroft ordered a one-month delay in McVeigh's scheduled May 16 execution after the FBI said it discovered documents that had not been provided to the defense during the discovery phase of his 1997 trial.
"The first delay of this case was necessary for this review (of the FBI documents) by lawyers for the defense and the prosecution," Ashcroft said. "A second delay in this case would ignore the evidence and the facts in the case."
McVeigh is on death row at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, awaiting execution for the April 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building that killed 168 people and wounded hundreds.
