He should be taken to a building about to be demolished anyway, with 250 of his closest militia buddies, chained to desks on the top floor, with explosives on all the main support structures of the building ready to detonate.

I'll gladly push the button.

I imagine that's the kind of thing that McVeigh might have been saying to himself in relation to Waco and Ruby Ridge, psyching himself up to act as some kind of avenging angel.

It's dangerous playing with that kind of thinking. We all think those thoughts sometimes. We're probably all capable of putting them into practice too, given -particular circumstances. I don't actually think there's anything particularly unusual about Timothy McVeigh. I do think that his public execution makes it more likely rather than less likely that other people will do the same kind of thing as he did.

Thank God the people of Ireland have now collectively agreed to put judicial killing behind them for ever.