"lets just see how bravely he faces the fate that he has subjected others to"

The chances are that he will "face it bravely" - and the effect of that is going to be to recruit more McVeighs out somewhere in America. That's part of the price paid for capital punishment. A pretty heavy price for the people who will be killed by McVeigh's hero-worshippers.

There was a James Cagney film (Angels with Dirty Faces was it?)in which he was about to be executed for murder. Being a hero, he was all set up to die staunch - then he thought about the kids who thought of him as a hero, so he put on a big act of dying as a coward, pleading for his life and crying out for mercy, to put his admirers off the idea of hero-worshipping him. But somehow I can't see McVeigh having the humanity or compassion to do anything like that. No, he'll die as a toughie. Big deal.