There is a long history of capital punishment in America. Also, many debates on the humanity of the death penalty. Throughout the years there have been a variety of methods used for the death penalty, and after Rainey Bethea's death the public execution of prisoners ended. However, that changed with coverage of Timothy McVeigh's execution. The convicted Oklahoma City bomber was scheduled to die the 16th of May, by lethal injection at a federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana. Here is a video, with a brief background on capital punishment.