by TChris

FBI agents wanted to question Timothy McVeigh about the details of his crime before his execution, but "internal disagreements" kept them from doing so.

Some called it a missed opportunity, especially because much of the speculation about additional accomplices in the Oklahoma City case focused on periods in which there are uncertainties about McVeigh's whereabouts.

McVeigh could have answered some important questions.

An Oklahoma newspaper, the Idabel McCurtain Daily Gazette, and a college criminology professor, Mark Hamm, have studied McVeigh's whereabouts extensively and developed timelines showing [a] white supremacist bank robbery gang was in the same vicinity as McVeigh several times during gaps in the government's official version of events.

Hamm thinks it unlikely that the intersections between McVeigh and the white supermacist bank robbers were coincidental. As TalkLeft recently reported, the government's failure to disclose information about the gang could threaten the current prosecution of Terry Nichols.

Another disadvantage of the death penalty: the dead keep their knowledge to themselves.