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With Timothy McVeigh scheduled to die on May 16,
you'll be seeing the name Victor Feguer popping up in
news stories about the coming demise of the Oklahoma
City bomber. That's because Feguer, convicted in 1961
of murder and kidnapping, was the last federal inmate
to be executed. He was killed in March 1963, hanged in
a noose that set back the U.S. Government $28.75. Ten
days before his death, Feguer was transferred from the
Leavenworth federal penitentiary to an Iowa state
prison since the feds did not then have the kind of
"death chamber" that awaits McVeigh. What follows are
some of the prison records maintained by the Iowa
officials who killed Feguer at Uncle Sam's request. In
light of the detailed protocol prepared for McVeigh's
execution, the killing of Feguer seemed downright
commonplace:
Page 1: Prisoner # 28105. Page 2: The budget for an execution. Page 3: President John F. Kennedy denies clemency. Page 4: The inmate's personal property. Pages 5-6: Plotting Feguer's final day. Page 7: A last-minute telegram. Page 8: Iowa doctors certify death. Page 9: A "fractured cervical spinal column." Page 10-11: The decedent's rap sheet.
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