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Timothy McVeigh was a troubled kid. He withdrew from his peers. McVeigh suffered from (OCD) Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. This interfered with his day today living. Tim McVeigh won the Army Commendation Medal, Army Achievement Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Southwest Asia service medal with two Bronze Stars, Kuwait Liberation Medal and Combat Infantryman Badge. He completed a leadership development course and was trained as a gunner in a Bradley Fighting Vehicle (Tigar, 2014). Timothy James McVeigh was an American domestic terrorist convicted and executed for the detonation of an ammonium nitrate fertilizer and nitromethane truck bomb in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Commonly referred to as the Oklahoma …show more content…

This was the largest terrorist attack on US soil before 9-11. Timothy McVeigh Was the first to commit a domestic mass act of terrorism. In 1995 McVeigh and two accomplices bombed the Alfred P. Murrah building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 168 People were killed. On the 19th morning of April at 9:02 in the morning, or actually just a few minutes before, Timothy McVeigh parked in front of the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City. He was in a Ford F-700 truck from Ryder rentals with a 20-foot box. The driver parked the truck and set the bomb to go off (Tigar, 2014). An explosion as quick as a heartbeat and sadness as long as life. McVeigh had also decided that the attack should not take place when the building was empty and should instead inflict many casualties to make a stronger political statement. Investigators later recovered McVeigh’s fingerprint on receipt for two thousand pounds of ammonium nitrate, basic explosive ingredient. Forensic analysts also located PETN residues on the clothing McVeigh wore on the day of his arrest (Saferstein,2014). The events surrounding the execution of Timothy McVeigh provide a dramatic case for examining the death penalty. In the course of the debate over capital punishment, the death penalty its morality, its utility and its fairness has been examined from numerous perspectives (Valentine,

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In the forensic investigation, there were 6 pieces of forensic finding used in Timothy McVeigh trial. The first set of the finding was the earplugs that he wore to silent the noise of the explosive. Meanwhile, there was a trace of residue found in his jean pockets along with two t-shirts and a knife with the sheath. Therefore, due to the positive mixture founded on McVeigh, the prosecutor believe that McVeigh was involved in making a bomb from a mixture of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil. It was believed after, Timothy McVeigh also participated in placing the barrel of bomb ingredients in the back of the rental Ryder truck.

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On April 19,1995, at 9:02 a.m., anti-government militant Timothy McVeigh rented a truck packed with explosives and detonated it in front of the nine-story Alfred P. Murrah Federal building in downtown Oklahoma City. The explosion blew off the building's north wall. The bomb destroyed one-third of the building. Rescue efforts were taken up by state, federal, and local law enforcements. A lot of the donations were received from across the country.

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April 19th, 1995, a truck bomb exploded outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (“Oklahoma City Bombing", 2009). The bombing killed 168 people, including 19 children and infants, and 650 more injured (“Oklahoma City Bombing", 2009). The bombing damaged or destroyed over 300 buildings near the bomb sight (“Oklahoma City Bombing", 2009). The man responsible for this horrendous event was man by the name of Timothy McVeigh ("Timothy McVeigh Biography", 2016). Timothy McVeigh was your normal run of the mill citizen, growing up in the typical working class environment in rural New York, and joining the Army in 1988 ("Timothy McVeigh Biography", 2016).

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