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 government officials as "fascist tyrants" and "storm troopers" and warned: McVeigh also wrote a letter of recruitment to a customer named Steve Colbern: McVeigh began announcing that he had progressed from the "propaganda" phase to the "action" phase. He wrote to his Michigan friend Gwenda Strider, "I have certain other 'militant' talents that are in short supply and greatly demanded." McVeigh later said he considered "a campaign of individual assassination," with "eligible" targets including Attorney General Janet Reno, Judge Walter S. Smith Jr. of Federal District Court, who handled the Branch Davidian trial, and Lon Horiuchi, a member of the