Those who survived and those who lost loved ones when McVeigh's bomb blew apart the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building planned to gather in the pre-dawn darkness to witness his execution via a closed-circuit feed from the federal prison in Terre Haute, Ind.

"It's not for revenge," said Tom Kight, whose stepdaughter died in the bombing. "I'm going there for a granddaughter who lost her mother at 2½. I personally can guarantee that McVeigh cannot kill another man, woman or child."

Some 300 survivors and victims' relatives planned to witness the tightly secured showing of the execution on a wide-screen television at the Federal Transfer Center near Oklahoma City's largest airport.

"It is definitely time for Mr. McVeigh to go," said Martha Ridley, who lost her daughter Kathy in the bombing and now cares for her two orphaned granddaughters. "And the only thing I'm going to say after that is, 'Good, I'm glad he's gone."'

She wasn't sure if she would witness the execution. Many others touched by the bombing said they had no interest in seeing McVeigh die.

Even those who didn't lose loved ones haven't forgotten how McVeigh's bomb shook this city on April 19, 1995.

He packed his rage against the government inside a Ryder truck. After parking the truck outside the glass-fronted Murrah building, he lit the fuse on his ammonium nitrate bomb and made his escape, leaving Oklahoma City to deal with the horror of its detonation.

Nineteen children in the building's daycare center were among those killed when the bomb sheared the face from all nine floors.

Some victims' relatives trickled to the site of the bombing Sunday. They came with flowers and gently placed them on the empty chairs that honor each of the 168 lives taken by the bomb.

Ridley said McVeigh's father, Bill, and sister Jennifer should be added to the list of his victims after Monday's execution.

"These have been two people who have been tremendously hurt," she said. "I don't think he gave a thought of what he left behind him and the people he hurt."