-Caveat Lector- >From VNY via http://www.worldnetdaily.com/frame/direct.asp?SITE=www.vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm? QID=176357 >>New symbol of faith: the syringe? A<>E<>R<< }}>Begin > McVeigh execution closes schools > Wednesday, 11 April 2001 20:25 (ET) > McVeigh execution closes schools > By GREGORY TEJEDA, United Press International > When students get a day off from school, the reason usually is to honor > the memory of historic figures such as George Washington or Christopher > Columbus, or events such as Thanksgiving. > But for students in public elementary and high schools in Terre Haute, > Ind., May 16, 2001, is going to be a day off from school because of a man > that many people would just as soon forget -- Timothy McVeigh. > Officials with the Vigo County, Ind., School Corp. have decided to let > students in the district's 30 elementary and middle schools have that > Wednesday as a day off because that is the day McVeigh, 32, is scheduled to > be executed for the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma > City. The blast killed 168 people. > Students at Terre Haute North and Terre Haute South high schools also will > get the day off, and that has death penalty opponents concerned that the > wrong emphasis will be placed on the upcoming execution. > "It's almost like they're having a holiday because of McVeigh," said > Johanna Ryan, an activist with Amnesty International. "That's just wrong." > McVeigh is an inmate on death row at the federal correctional center, > located just south of the central Indiana city, and his execution will take > place there. > Ray Azar, superintendent for the elementary schools, said security issues > were behind the decision to grant a school holiday. > He said five school bus routes pass by the prison on roads that likely > will be restricted on the day of execution. Two schools are near the prison, > and Azar said officials decided a day off for all schools was the easiest > way to address the issue. > Azar also said he expects local police to have significant security issues > to deal with on May 16, which would mean less time to deal with school > issues if classes were open that day. > He believes that having the school system closed for a day, "is the best > thing we can do to help make things more safe on that day." > McVeigh's death -- if it goes ahead as scheduled -- would be the first > execution of a federal inmate since 1963. But it is only one of hundreds > that have been conducted in the United States since capital punishment was > reinstated in 1976 and murderer Gary Gilmore was executed the following > year. > Activists who monitor the death penalty were not aware of any instance > where school districts in towns with prisons gave students a day off from > class because of an execution. > Ryan said she wished that Terre Haute officials had not taken such an > action, because she thinks it will place McVeigh and capital punishment in > their minds for the wrong reasons. > She said if they had to go to school that day it would just be another > day. "And kids being kids, some of them would probably get through the day > without being aware what was happening." she said. > Instead, Ryan thinks they will remember executions as an excuse to get out > of school. > "They should be thinking of things like Pokemon. Instead they get a day > off to focus on an execution," Ryan said. > Azar and high school superintendent Daniel Canuse both said they think > death penalty critics are making too much of the day off, which they say was > a decision they made on their own. > School officials, however, were included in meetings with police and other > municipal officials earlier this year to discuss precautions that were > needed to deal with all the attention McVeigh's scheduled death will bring > to their city. > "The whole world is going to know about us on that day, and we want to > make it through as painlessly as possible," Azar said. He said that the > school holiday was not meant to make a statement on the propriety of capital > punishment, one way or the other. > "We're not involving ourselves with the death penalty in any way," he > said. "We're trying to avoid that debate." > Both school officials said the school holiday should not be seen as a > precedent for all executions at the federal prison. The only other scheduled > execution of drug kingpin Juan Raul Garza will not occur at the prison until > after the current school year ends for the summer on June 6. > "It's just for the one day," Azar said. "We don't plan to make a habit out > of it." > -- > Copyright 2001 by United Press International. > All rights reserved. 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