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 for nuclear attacks and considered buying property in Seligman, Arizona, which he determined to be in a "nuclear-free zone." McVeigh lived with Michael Fortier in Kingman, Arizona, and they became so close that he served as best man at Fortier's wedding. McVeigh experimented with cannabis and methamphetamine after first researching their effects in an encyclopedia. He was never as interested in drugs as Fortier was, and one of the reasons they parted ways was McVeigh's boredom with Fortier's drug habits. In April 1993, McVeigh headed for a farm in Michigan where Terry Nichols lived. In between watching coverage of the