'Now I'm prepared to die', says Oaklahoma bomber

Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh has abandoned all legal efforts to delay his execution and is prepared to die on Monday, for the worst terrorist attack on US soil.

McVeigh’s decision came last night within minutes of learning that a three-judge panel of the 10th US Circuit Court of Appeals had ruled that his lawyers ‘‘utterly failed to demonstrate substantial grounds’’ why he should not be put to death next week for the blast in 1995 that killed 168 people.