Editing Arlington National Cemetery (section)

===Prohibitions against interment or memorialization===
Congress has from time to time created prohibited categories of persons who, even if otherwise eligible for burial, lose that eligibility. One such prohibition is against certain persons who are convicted of committing certain state or federal capital crimes, as defined in [https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/38/2411- 38 U.S. Code § 2411]. Capital crime is a specifically defined term in the statute, and for state offenses can include offenses that are eligible for a life sentence (with or without parole). The reasoning for this provision originally was to prevent [[Timothy McVeigh]] from being eligible for burial at Arlington National Cemetery, but it has since been amended to bar others.<ref name="fox">{{cite news| title=Arlington National Cemetery Burial Law Eyed| url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/arlington-national-cemetery-burial-law-eyed| agency=Associated Press| publisher=Fox News| date=August 10, 2005| access-date=July 29, 2011| archive-date=February 1, 2011| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110201182749/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,165335,00.html| url-status=live}}</ref>