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After the Denver jury found McVeigh guilty last Monday of all 11 crimes with which he had been charged, the case entered the penalty phase, in which the jurors must decide whether McVeigh deserves to be executed. All the offenses--conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction, use of a weapon of mass destruction, destruction by an explosive and the murder of eight federal law-enforcement agents--carry the possible penalty of death. Questions about the morality of the death penalty itself are moot, since in order to join the panel, the jurors had to say they were capable...
...determine if any had been copied. The computer is situated in the district attorney's office, but according to authorities, the room was not broken into. Officials said security measures have been tightened as computer experts and police comb the system for signs of tampering. But TIME's Denver bureau chief Richard Woodbury says the damage is already done: "It's just one more chapter in this comedy of errors. Nearly all the evidence has already been compromised. It's really looking doubtful whether this thing is ever going to end in an arrest. The only way seems...
...DENVER: After deliberating for eleven hours, McVeigh?s jury gathered in the Denver courtroom at 5:30 EDT on Friday and answered a series of questions assessing everything from his personal history to his culpability and intent in the Oklahoma bombing. They had voted on an excruciatingly long list of factors to reach their final choice: Life or death. In the end, the jury, standing one by one, affirmed that they had chosen the ultimate penalty: death by lethal injection. As McVeigh was escorted from the courtroom after the verdict, he turned to his family and appeared to mouth...
...DENVER: Taking one last, wild shot before jurors began deliberating Timothy McVeigh's punishment, his defense closed with the somewhat incredible argument that McVeigh didn't deserve to die because we were all to blame. "Aren't we all in some way implicated in this crime?" defense attorney Richard Burr asked, arguing that Americans let tyranny reign during the bloody sieges at Waco and Ruby Ridge. "We all bear some responsibility for Oklahoma City," he said. "We should not feel a clear conscience if we kill Tim McVeigh." The tactic smacks of desperation, notes TIME's Adam Cohen. "Now they...
...DENVER: Closing with Timothy McVeigh's tearful mother and a five-minute video of a young Tim at Christmastime, the defense may have finally gotten through to jurors today in a trial dominated emotionally by the prosecution. "This was the big moment in the trial," reports TIME's Pat Cole from Denver. "McVeigh's parents made an appeal to a group of strangers to save their son's life," he said. "It made one juror cry, that in spite of what he was involved in, he was still a person who had a family, who had a childhood...