David Paul Hammer David Paul Hammer David Paul Hammer (born October 9, 1958) is an American federal prisoner serving life without possibility of parole concurrent with a 1200-year Oklahoma State sentence. He was sentenced to death on November 4, 1998 for the murder of his cell mate, Andrew Marti. He is also a writer and anti-death penalty advocate who achieved media fame for his 2004 autobiography "The Final Escape", "Secrets Worth Dying For" (his 2004 first book about Timothy McVeigh), and 2010's "Deadly Secrets: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing", based on information from when McVeigh was a then-fellow death row inmate.
Timothy McVeigh he considered having them dropped at the site of the memorial where the building once stood, but decided that would be "too vengeful, too raw, too cold." He had expressed willingness to donate organs, but was prohibited from doing so by prison regulations. Psychiatrist John Smith concluded that McVeigh was "a decent person who had allowed rage to build up inside him to the point that he had lashed out in one terrible, violent act." McVeigh's IQ was assessed at 126. According to CNN, his only known associations were as a registered Republican while in Buffalo, New York, in the