On April 19th in the year 1995, a suspect by the name of Timothy McVeigh parked a truck loaded with a bomb right outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal building located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Thus, there was 168 lives lost in the explosion and hundreds were injured following the attack. The defendant in this case is a former military official who was then an anti-government militant Timothy McVeigh. “Oklahoma City bombing was believed to be the worst terrorist attack to take place on U.S. soil, until the terroristic attacks on the World Trade Center that took place in New York on September 11, 2001” (History.com Staff, 2009). McVeigh the defendant of this case proudly served in the Persian Gulf War in the early phase of the …show more content…
In 2007 Fortier was released from prison and entered the witness protection program. Nichols was also found guilty in December 1997 on one count of conspiracy and eight counts of involuntary manslaughter when he killed a federal law enforcement agent and was then sentenced to life in prison. Nichols was tried on state charges in Oklahoma in the year 2004 and was convicted of 161 counts of first-degree murder which included fetal homicide. Thus, Nichols received 161 consecutive life terms in prison. “McVeigh requested a federal judge to stop all his appeals towards the case and to appoint him a date for his execution in December 2000” (Romano, 1997). His request was accepted and McVeigh a 33-year-old Army veteran died by lethal injection at the United States penitentiary located in Terre Haute, Indiana. Since 1963 Timothy was the first federal prisoner to be executed. The nation was very shocked to hear that a citizen of his own country would commit such acts. At first many people thought that the terrorist act was caused by a foreign terrorist but it was committed by a “clean-cut young man from upstate New York who had played in Little League and had a distinguished military record, only to hate his own government after leaving the Army in 1991 when he began to drift, coming with right-wing militia sentiments” (Romano,