An execution date of May 16 was set today for Timothy McVeigh, who was convicted in the Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people.
The US Bureau of Prisons set the date after McVeigh last week did not change his mind about his decision not to appeal his death sentence.
McVeigh, has given no reason for his surprising decision to stop his appeals. McVeigh could become the first federal prisoner executed in the United States since 1963.
McVeigh was found guilty and sentenced to die in 1997 for the explosion that ripped through the Alfred P. Murrah federal building on April 19, 1995.
The bombing killed 168 people, including 19 children in a day-care center in the building, and injured 500 others in the worst act of terrorism on US soil, federal prosecutors said.
Reuters