On this day, April 19, in 1995, in a bizarre coincidence, a white supremacist who once plotted to blow up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was executed for two murders on the same day that Timothy McVeigh successfully blew up the federal building.
Richard Snell was put to death in Arkansas for killing a black state trooper and a pawnshop owner he mistakenly believed was Jewish.
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