Terre Haute is the location of the Federal Correctional Complex , located on Highway 63 , two miles south of the city . The complex includes a medium security Federal Correctional Institution and a high security United States Penitentiary . The penitentiary houses the Special Confinement Unit for inmates serving federal death sentences . On June 11 , 2001 , Timothy James McVeigh , convicted of use of a weapon of mass destruction in the Oklahoma City Bombing , was put to death there by lethal injection
Oklahoma City Bombing
Oklahoma City bombing
Terre Haute, Indiana