George W. Bush

George W. Bush is the forty-third president of the United States. The following selection is his statement following the execution of Timothy McVeigh. Bush asserts that although McVeigh has died, the pain lives on for his victims and their families. However, Americans can now rest in the knowledge, he asserts, that justice has been done.

This morning the United States of America carried out the severest sentence for the gravest of crimes. The victims of the Oklahoma City bombing have been given not vengeance but justice. And one young man met the fate he chose for himself 6 years ago.

For the survivors of the crime and for the families of the dead, the pain goes on. Final punishment of the guilty cannot alone bring peace to the innocent. It cannot recover the loss or balance the scales, and...