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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In October 1983, Snell, a leader of a Neo-Nazi group, plotted to remotely launch rockets from a van parked in front of the Murrah building.
Snell and McVeigh ran in the same circles, but McVeigh said he chose the timing of the bomb to coincide with the two-year anniversary of the fiery federal raid outside Waco.
