TY  - BOOK
AU  - Madeira,Jody Lyneé
TI  - Killing McVeigh: The Death Penalty and the Myth of Closure 
SN  - 9780814796108
AV  - KF224.M37 M33 2016
U1  - 363.325140976638 23
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - New York University Press, 
KW  - Capital punishment
KW  - United States
KW  - Cases
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Domestic terrorism
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Oklahoma City Federal Building Bombing, Oklahoma City, Okla., 1995
KW  - Terrorism victims' families
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Victims of terrorism
KW  - Rehabilitation
KW  - LAW / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; The Oklahoma City Bombing --; Preface --; PART I: BLOOD RELATIONS --; 1 “A Rude Awakening” --; 2 “He Broke into My Life” --; 3 Opening Up “Closure” --; PART II: TRAUMAS AND TRIALS --; 4 “We Come Here to Remember” --; 5 “God Bless the Media” --; 6 “Making Sure Justice Was Served” --; PART III: THE ROAD TO EXECUTION --; 7 Emotion on Trial --; 8 Reaching Law’s Limits --; 9 The Storm before the Calm --; 10 The Weight of an Impossible World --; 11 Done to Death --; Conclusion --; Appendix: Methodology --; Notes --; Index --; About the Author; restricted access
N2  - On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh detonated a two-ton truck bomb that felled the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people. On June 11, 2001, an unprecedented 242 witnesses watched him die by lethal injection.In the aftermath of the bombings, American public commentary almost immediately turned to “closure” rhetoric. Reporters and audiences alike speculated about whether victim’s family members and survivors could get closure from memorial services, funerals, legislation, monuments, trials, and executions. But what does “closure” really mean for those who survive-or lose loved ones in-traumatic acts? In the wake of such terrifying events, is closure a realistic or appropriate expectation? In Killing McVeigh, Jody Lyneé Madeira uses the Oklahoma City bombing as a case study to explore how family members and other survivors come to terms with mass murder. As the fullest case study to date of the Oklahoma City Bombing survivors’ struggle for justice and the first-ever case study of closure, this book describes the profound human and institutional impacts of these labors to demonstrate the importance of understanding what closure really is before naively asserting it can or has been reached
UR  - https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814796108.001.0001
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814724545
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780814724545/original
ER  -