Word: mcveigh
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...defendant. He showed no emotion when the verdicts were read, nor did he react during the testimony of the victims last week. While others wept, he sat at the defense table in his impassive pose, with his chin resting on his hands. Lawyers and spectators were shocked that McVeigh remained so unmoved, and the jury may also have been affected. "McVeigh's demeanor matters," said Larry Pozner, a veteran defense attorney in Denver. "The jurors see everything and forget nothing. The demeanor of Timothy McVeigh will be weighed...
...doubtful, even after all the defense witnesses have testified, that the jurors will feel any more indulgent toward McVeigh or that they will know him any better. He remains a mysterious figure. When he enters the courtroom, he continues to look relaxed and even jocular, until the jury comes in, and then his face goes blank. His only real confidant appears to be Jones. He had a birthday on April 23, when he turned 29; his lawyers gave him two flannel shirts and a box of Peppermint Patties. He spends most of his time in jail reading the piles...
...McVeigh has evidently agreed to Jones' effort to win him a life sentence, but if he were true to his beliefs, he should welcome the hangman (or hypodermic man). For years, the book he has cherished is The Turner Diaries, a fictional account of an uprising by a courageous band of white supremacists. Earl Turner, the hero, does not flinch at the idea of dying for his cause. Indeed, in the book's final pages he joyfully embraces this fate. "Brothers!" he says, addressing an elite group called the Order. "When I entered your ranks for the first time...
After working so hard to prevent a circus, Judge Richard Matsch was not about to preside over a lynching--or risk seeing the biggest case of his career reversed on appeal. So on Wednesday, with prosecutors ready to explain in grisly detail why Timothy McVeigh deserves death, Matsch ordered the jurors to lock away their feelings and remain "free from the influence of passion." He ruled that government evidence designed to stir those emotions--wedding portraits, poetry, the testimony of a boy who missed his mom--would all be inadmissible...
That was about all she could manage. Treanor dissolved, her body racked by sobs, and almost everyone in the courtroom dissolved with her. Jurors wept openly, survivors wailed, reporters groped for hankies and sodden bits of tissue. Through it all sat McVeigh, cold and silent as stone. At that moment in that room, it seemed inconceivable that the jury could do anything but sentence him to death--and that anything but simple vengeance would be the reason why. When the day's testimony was over, even Matsch looked shaken. "You're human, and I'm human too," he told...