Pictorial
First place: Susan Watts, New York Daily News

On the day Timothy McVeigh is executed, a mourner places his hand on the "Gates of Time" at the Oklahoma National Memorial which stands on the former site of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. After dipping your hand in the reflecting pool, it has become ritual to leave a handprint. McVeigh received the death penalty for blowing up the building with a 7-pound bomb that killed 168 people.

First Place: Susan Watts, New York Daily News
Second Place: Michael Goulding, Orange County Register
Third Place: Samanda Dorger, Napa Valley Register
Honorable Mention: Damon Winter, The Dallas Morning News
Honorable Mention: Jacek Gancarz, Palm Beach Daily News
Honorable Mention: Todd Sumlin, The Charlotte Observer

Judges' Comments:
"It's the perfect way to comment and to illustrate the McVeigh execution without showing him or the death chamber, but instead by concentrating on the people who were effected, the victims. We had all seen the chairs and the memorial already."

"Beautifully done and evocative of the victims. A very nice memory...I think your eye goes to it immediately. The composition and the reflections, just lovely..."

- Michelle Stephenson

"Most of the time in this category, it is pretty pictures. This thing was a pretty picture from a news event that interpreted it with a picture that was memorable. It has meaning and not just a pretty picture. It's a tough category because it's mixed in with scenic elements and mountains."

-- Robert Hanashiro