Word: murderes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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 of imposing it. Their vote must be unanimous...
...moral order by which alone we can live as human beings." Which is to say, some animals need killing, if only to remind the rest of us animals how to live. By this standard, state executions evince more reverence for life than prison sentences that treat murder as something punishable by a lifetime's worth of weight lifting...
...penalty phase. Congress got into the act with the 1988 and 1994 crime bills, which included the first modern federal death-penalty statute and extended the death penalty to more than 50 different offenses. It was under one of those new statutes that McVeigh was accused of the murder of federal law-enforcement officials...
...cite just one example, Rolando Cruz and another Chicago man were sentenced to death for the 1983 abduction, rape and murder of 10-year-old Jeanine Nicarico. The prosecution based its case on a "vision statement" from Cruz--a dream about the murder he'd allegedly recounted to police. The conviction was overturned, and Cruz was retried in 1990, but another man--who had actually confessed to the crime--was not allowed to testify, and Cruz was convicted on the same dream evidence. In 1994 the state Supreme Court overturned Cruz's second conviction, and the government began preparations...
...Greenspan and West Virginia Senator Jay Rockefeller. The militia, charged last October with conspiring to bomb the FBI's national fingerprint headquarters in West Virginia, said the hits would be carried out as part of a "holy war" against the federal government and therefore could not be considered as murder. The FBI documents also state that a militiaman associated with the West Virginia group suggested that members target the Rockefeller and Greenspan families as well. "You must chop off their heads," Larry Matz, an Ohio resident not charged in the bombing plot, allegedly said. Throughout his 31-year political career...