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...bomb that exploded in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building two years ago killed 168 people, 19 of them children. Last Friday the decision about whether or not Timothy McVeigh was responsible for the crime was placed in the hands of the jurors, who were to be sequestered until they reached a verdict. If they found McVeigh guilty on any one of the 11 murder and conspiracy counts against him, he could face the death penalty. Juries are notoriously unpredictable, but given the thinness of the defense and the strength of the prosecution, an acquittal would...
...half days building a succinct and horrifying case that jurors should do exactly that. Witness after witness piled on details so gruesome that lawyers, journalists, U.S. marshals and members of the jury all wept: How, after the bomb went off, the floors of the Alfred P. Murrah building pancaked on top of each other. How rescuers had to build bridges to get across pools of body fluids. How Dania Bradley, trapped and unable to take anesthetic, screamed as a doctor sawed her leg off to free her from the ruined building. Against all this, Jones must simply ask for mercy...
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...
Fortier's testimony provided details about McVeigh's preparations that had never been heard before. He said, for example, that when he and McVeigh traveled to Oklahoma City from Arizona in December 1994 to case the Murrah building, McVeigh saw a Ryder truck on the road, pointed at it and said it was the kind of truck he wanted to use in the bombing. Fortier also said that McVeigh considered a suicide mission, driving the truck into the building and remaining at the wheel when it exploded. Then came the strangest moment of the trial, when Fortier remarked...
This was not the only weak moment for the prosecution. Testimony about a phone card supposedly used by McVeigh was inconclusive. On April 16 a security camera near the Murrah building recorded a 1984 GMC truck driving by, and since Nichols owned a GMC truck of the same year, the government tried to use the video to corroborate its theory that he picked up McVeigh that night, after he parked his getaway car. But the defense easily popped this balloon, pointing out that dozens of people in the area might own such trucks. The FBI did not find McVeigh...