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...DENVER: TIME's Patrick Cole reports from Denver that jurors started crying even before the first witness took the stand in Timothy McVeigh's sentencing hearing as Prosecutor Patrick Ryan asked them to remember all 168 people that McVeigh's bomb killed. "It would be easy for you as a jury to think of this as one mass murder. Don't. There are 168 people, all unique, all individual . . . All had families, all had friends, and they're different." Two of the jurors began to cry once more as Sonya Diane Leonard, who lost her husband, told them: "I feel...
...DENVER: Asserting that he does not want Timothy McVeigh?s sentencing hearing to turn into ?some kind of lynching,? Judge Richard Matsch blocked the prosecution's plan to introduce some highly emotional material, including wedding photographs of victims and a father?s poem about his dead child. Arguments centered on the federal Victims Rights Act, which allows crime victims to attend trials and testify about the crime's impact. The act was hastily shoved through Congress in March in response to Matsch's refusal to allow anyone who attended the trial to testify during its criminal phase. Though a federal...
...DENVER: Timothy McVeigh watched quietly as his jury walked into the courtroom. Jurors could not look him in the eye as he sat still with his hands clasped in front of him while the verdict was read: Guilty on all 11 counts in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah building in Oklahoma City. Guilty of using a weapon of mass destruction to kill people and destroy federal property. Guilty of using a weapon of mass destruction that caused death and injury. Guilty of one count of malicious destruction of federal property. Guilty of eight counts of murdering federal...
...DENVER: The verdict concludes the first of several trials that arise from the bombing. As for McVeigh?s punishment, jurors on Wednesday will begin hearings that could take as long as two weeks to determine whether he should get the death penalty. The defense has not tipped its strategy for that phase, but Jones may ask the jury to consider McVeigh's youth and the fact that he served his country during the Gulf War. Another possible tactic: Put McVeigh, who did not testify during the trial, on the stand to appeal for mercy. Because Judge Matsch has put lawyers...
...DENVER: As deliberations in the Oklahoma City bombing trial continue, TIME's Patrick Cole reports that prosecutors are supremely confident that jurors will rule against Timothy McVeigh while the defense is hoping that a strong closing argument will bring reasonable doubt. It's about all McVeigh attorney Stephen Jones has left. After more than two years of preparation, spending between three and ten million dollars on the case, Jones presented only 25 witnesses in three days of testimony. The suddenness of the defense argument, contrasted with a sharp and thorough prosecution that crisply made its points with more than...