McVeigh starving to appear like martyr, say inmates
Fellow death-row inmates claim Timothy McVeigh is starving himself so he will appear like a concentration camp victim when he is executed.
They have told an internet site the bomber is on a vegetable diet and has slimmed down to appear like a martyr.
McVeigh has decided against further appeals and is prepared to die on Monday for the Oklahoma City bombing.
The bomber has given away his spare socks, T-shirts and pictures to fellow inmates and sent personal possessions home.
David Hammer and Jeffrey Paul, who are on death-row with McVeigh at the federal jail in Terre Haute, Indiana, talk on the website Death Row Speaks.
Hammer said of McVeigh: "His face is pulled tight and his body is slim to the point of resembling a starved person.
"At 6ft 2ins he weighs 157lbs. All of this is by design, planned to the most minute detail. All for impression and purpose."
Paul says an order has been given for all McVeigh's rubbish to shredded.
He claimed: "Apparently, a staff member was caught either smuggling things out of prison with McVeigh's name on it or trying to sell some things of his on the internet."
McVeigh will be the first federal prisoner executed since 1963 when he is given a lethal injection on Monday, watched on CCTV by more than 200 witnesses and relatives of his 168 victims.
