politicians won’t try to capitalize on to further increase the power of government.” Desbach also thinks that if any government with the power to kill their own citizens through the criminal justice system also has an obligation that no innocent person is ever executed (LP Warns 1). Some say that the best defense against domestic terrorism is a vibrant, open political system where no American will feel excluded or voiceless. This would lead to an American foreign policy that does not interfere in the affairs of other nations.This policy would help fight against terrorist like Terry Nichols, Timothy McVeigh, and the others who may have contributed to the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. Nichols was found guilty for his part in the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma on April 19, 1995. On this day 168 people were killed, more than 500 people were injured, and including the death of eight federal agents. Nichols was convicted for conspiracy and involuntary manslaughter; he was sentenced for life in prison and was also acquitted by the jury on the charges of first and second-degree murder (Oklahoma 2). Even though convicted he wanted the jury and America to understand that Timothy McVeigh had intended to kill hundreds of people. U.S District Judge Richard Matasch sentenced Nichols to life in prison for the conspiracy conviction, and he also received concurrent six-year sentences for each of the eight accounts of manslaughter (U.S 1).McVeigh was known to people who knew him as a boy gone bad. He was found guilty on 11 counts of murder and conspiracy for the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. McVeigh was sentenced to die by lethal injection. If the conviction is upheld on an appeal, it could take three years (Annin 40). The jurors reached a verdict of death despite McVeigh’s military record and his boy next-door appearance; they all thought that he should die. Their...
