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Crime History: Oklahoma City plotter executed on day of McVeigh bombing

By Scott McCabe
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Crime History: Oklahoma City plotter executed on day of McVeigh bombing

On this day, April 19, in 1995, in an eerie coincidence, a white supremacist who once plotted to blow up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was executed on the same day that Timothy McVeigh successfully bombed the federal building.

Richard Wayne Snell, 64, was put to death in Arkansas for killing a black state trooper and a pawnshop owner he believed was Jewish.

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