Senate Vote Would Bar McVeigh Benefits
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In a measure aimed at convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy J. McVeigh, the Senate voted, 98 to 0, to bar burial and other veterans’ benefits for those found guilty of federal capital offenses. Veterans groups have been angered that McVeigh, as a Gulf War veteran, could be buried in a national cemetery. McVeigh was sentenced to death last week for the April 19, 1995, bombing of an Oklahoma federal building that killed 168 people. Current law denies burial benefits to those convicted of other crimes, but not murder.
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