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...consider what happened in Oklahoma, Tim was a good person." --MICHAEL FORTIER...
When the prosecution's star witness in the Oklahoma City bombing trial made this observation about his close friend Timothy McVeigh a few weeks ago, he provoked gasps and nervous laughter in the courtroom. The remark was absurd--an amazing, morally obtuse Yogi Berra-ism. And yet it serves as a perfect summary of the argument the defense must now make in order to save McVeigh's life...
Jurors and spectators sobbed last week as they listened to the witnesses describe the horrors they and others endured. "I saw a body in a blanket," recalled Jerry Flowers, a member of the Oklahoma City police force. "When I opened up the blanket, there was a 5-year-old boy. His face was gone." David William Klaus, whose daughter died in the bombing, told the jury that he and his wife got married on April 19, 1963, but now they celebrate their anniversary on the following day. Struggling to hold back tears, Klaus said, "There's just this huge hole...
...guilty verdict they had awaited for two years, an Oklahoma City survivor said last week, "wasn't enough." Would the death penalty be enough? For a crime this extreme, can anything be enough? The survivors know that "closure" is a cruel hoax, that the hole McVeigh created in their lives can't be filled by court proceedings, verdicts, even executions. Perhaps that is why a surprising number of them emerged this week to say they oppose death for McVeigh and believe they will heal faster if he is spared. No research indicates that survivors are more "satisfied" or that their...
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...