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And he seems to have lawyers who would like to try everything. So that will  enable him to delay the death penalty, maybe over ten years.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Paul Rothstein, Legal Expert, Georgetown University\u003cbr/\u003eIf McVeigh's lawyers choose to appeal - and there is little doubt they will - the case  then goes to the 10th U-S Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver.\u003cbr/\u003eThe appeals court will review the court record, including all the evidence in the trial.\u003cbr/\u003eIt will also review any issues raised by McVeigh's attorneys, including whether the  sentence of death was imposed under the influence of passion or prejudice.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"I imagine that they will challenge the degree to which the trial judge let in a lot of  sympathy testimony on the part of victims and their families during the guilt/innocence  phase, and even maybe too much of it in the penalty phase of the trial.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Paul Rothstein, Legal Expert, Georgetown University\u003cbr/\u003eMcVeigh's defence attorney Stephen Jones is also likely argue that Judge Matsch  unfairly clamped down on his defence, by not allowing him to bring forward his  conspiracy theories.\u003cbr/\u003eThe appeals court could decide that McVeigh deserves a new trial, and then the long,  arduous trial process begins once again.\u003cbr/\u003eIt could also rule that the conviction and the sentence were just.\u003cbr/\u003eIn that case, McVeigh's lawyers will appeal to the highest court in the land - the U-S  Supreme Court.\u003cbr/\u003eCritics of the process say the system favours criminals, making it too easy for them to  stay alive, even after they have been sentenced to death.\u003cbr/\u003eBut others argue it was designed like that for a reason.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"It is a very serious penalty, it is society taking a life, it is the extreme sanction, so you  want to administer it with more care than maybe some of the other punishments that  society administers.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Paul Rothstein, Legal Expert, Georgetown University\u003cbr/\u003eShould he appeal, McVeigh will spend his time at the U-S Penitentiary in Indiana - the  only maximum security prison with facilities to carry out an execution.\u003cbr/\u003eDeath row inmates are executed according to the method prescribed by the state where  they were sentenced. \u003cbr/\u003eThe state of Colorado, where McVeigh was sentenced, puts people to death by lethal  injection.\u003cbr/\u003eBut the chances are that Timothy McVeigh will never die from lethal injection.\u003cbr/\u003eOf the more than 300 criminals sentenced to die each year in the U-S, only about 35  are ever executed.\u003cbr/\u003eIn fact, the most frequent cause of death on death row in the U-S is natural causes.\u003cbr/\u003eBut that may be enough for the majority of Americans.\u003cbr/\u003eWhile opinion polls show 78 per cent approve of the ultimate penalty in principle, the  head of the Death Penalty Information Centre says seeing it carried out is another  story.    \u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think that there's an ambivalence about the death penalty. People want it on the  books, they want some people to be sentenced to death, but they don't necessarily  want a lot of executions. There's something against our nature, in taking a human being  and killing them.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Richard Dietrich, Death Penalty Information Centre \u003cbr/\u003eFor those who want Timothy McVeigh to stay alive in the hope that one day he will  decide to talk the appeal process is a sign of hope, or at least some relief.\u003cbr/\u003eOthers, who yearn for his death, are likely to have to wait for some time yet.\u003cbr/\u003eOklahoma City and Washington DC, USA - 31 May and 12, 13 June 1997, and file\u003cbr/\u003eOklahoma City, 31 May 1997:\u003cbr/\u003e1. Family of bomb victims looking at fence\u003cbr/\u003e2. Tight shot of fence\u003cbr/\u003e3. Tight shot of men looking at fence\u003cbr/\u003e4. Wide shot of fence surrounding bomb site\u003cbr/\u003eFile:\u003cbr/\u003e5. McVeigh walking under guard\u003cbr/\u003eWashington DC, 13 June 1997:\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Paul Rothstein, Legal Expert, Georgetown University\u003cbr/\u003eFile:\u003cbr/\u003e7. Defence attorney Stephen Jones walking into Denver courthouse\u003cbr/\u003e8. McVeigh and his attorney Stephen Jones going over case in jail\u003cbr/\u003eWashington DC, 13 June 1997:\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Paul Rothstein, Legal Expert, Georgetown University\u003cbr/\u003eCourt sketches - Pool:\u003cbr/\u003e10. Sketch of Judge Richard Matsch\u003cbr/\u003e11. Sketch of Stephen Jones, during court, McVeigh in background\u003cbr/\u003eFile:\u003cbr/\u003e12. US Supreme Court building\u003cbr/\u003eWashington DC, 13 June 1997:\u003cbr/\u003e13. Wide shot of Paul Rothstein\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Paul Rothstein, Legal Expert, Georgetown University\u003cbr/\u003eFile, from Federal Bureau of Prisons, Terre Haute, Indiana \u003cbr/\u003e15. Zoom into U-S Federal Penitentiary sign\u003cbr/\u003e16. Pan of the exterior of U-S Federal Penitentiary\u003cbr/\u003e17. Various shots of the lethal injection chamber\u003cbr/\u003eWashington D-C, 12 June 1997\u003cbr/\u003e18. Richard Dietrich working at his desk\u003cbr/\u003e19. SOUNDBITE: (English) Richard Dietrich, Death Penalty Information Centre\u003cbr/\u003eCourt exhibit\u003cbr/\u003e20. McVeigh during Persian Gulf War\u003cbr/\u003e21. Photo of McVeigh and his sister at Christmas\u003cbr/\u003e22. 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