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NEW YORK, JUNE 15
Q: mr. president, welcome to Europe, to Spain. There are a few differences in outlook on policy between us-older societies-and you, of the new world-
A: Yes. Go ahead.
Q: -for instance on the subject of capital punishment. Your Timothy McVeigh is scheduled for execution tomorrow.
A: Yes. According to federal law, his crime is punishable by execution.
Q: You say, "federal law." But there hasn't been an execution under the federal code for almost 40 years.
A: Ours is a deliberate process. Perhaps you will think it too deliberate. There are Americans who would sympathize with you. It took what, ten years? to bring to trial the two men accused of the Lockerbie bombings. And then what-one year to try them? The execution of Mr. McVeigh is accelerated by his own action. He asked to move his sentence forward, rather than go through the legal motions (they have averaged about ten years) available to him.