On April 19, 1995 our lives as Oklahomans changed forever. A single man named Timothy McVeigh, with the help of two others, took the lives of 168 people and ruined hundreds. Out of those 168 people, 19 of them were little children and even babies from the daycare. He took the lives of innocent children and people that were strangers to him. Timothy McVeigh most definitely should have received the death penalty instead of life in prison.
Timothy McVeigh was exmilitary and he knew what he was doing. He knew exactly how much ammonium nitrate fertilizer and liquid nitromethane he needed and how to mix it just right. McVeigh and his main partner Terry Nichols “packed 108 bags of ammonium nitrate fertilizer, three fifty-five-gallon drums of liquid nitromethane, and several crates of explosives into the Ryder truck and moved it to Geary County State Lake, where they mixed the materials.” (Casey). After they got the truck ready, Nichols fled for Herington, Kansas and McVeigh got the truck to Oklahoma City to finish off his plan. Days before
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It was considered “The shot heard around the world” because it affected so many people around the world. After the bombing changed everything, “the government took legislative measured, notably the Antiterrorism and effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 and the victim Allocation Clarification Act of 1997, in an effort to prevent future terrorist attacks.” (Casey). Little did they know, this was not a terrorist attack, just a huge act against the government. McVeigh encouraged the government to enforce that “all federal buildings were surrounded with protective barriers and engineering improvements were made to construct safer buildings. “The Oklahoma City Bombing was the deadliest act of terror against the United States on American Soil until the attacks of September 11, 2001.” (Casey). The bombing was the hottest topic around the world for six whole years and is still very well know to this