On March 12 , 2000 , '' 60 Minutes '' aired an interview with Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh . At the time , McVeigh had already been convicted and sentenced to death for the April 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building and subsequent deaths of 168 people . On the program , McVeigh was given the opportunity to vent against the government . Following the program , a federal policy called the Special Confinement Unit Media Policy was enacted prohibiting face-to-face interviews with death row inmates . A federal inmate challenged the policy in '' Hammer v. Ashcroft '' , under which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit upheld the prison policy . In March 2010 , the United States Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal in the case , and the policy limiting media access to death row inmates remains in place . CBS refuses to show the entire interview , and has stated no reasons
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