McALESTER, Okla. (AP) - Prosecutors began making the case Tuesday that Terry Nichols deserves to die for his part in the Oklahoma City bombing, putting on the stand a father whose 6-month-old son was so horribly mutilated in the attack that he had to be identified by his fingerprints. Kevin Gottshall said his son, Kevin Lee Gottshall II, was in the federal building's second-floor day-care center when the bomb went off on April 19, 1995. A photo of the smiling baby was beamed over television monitors to Nichols' jury as Gottshall described the child's death.
Terry Nichols, a man no one presumes to be innocent, this week went on trial again for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing. He was put on trial again despite the fact that most Oklahomans thought it wasn't a good idea. He went on trial again despite the fact that the federal courts almost certainly will reject the death sentence his state court judge and jury almost surely will impose. He went on trial again at enormous relative cost to a financially strapped state. Nichols was put on trial again even though he already was serving a federal life sentence as Timothy McVeigh's co-conspirator in the massive bombing that left 168 people dead at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995. He went on trial again even though a well-chosen federal jury already determined, in Denv...
Scott Pelley, a news correspondent on 60 Minutes, will be the speaker for the Leadership Oklahoma's summer conference at noon June 24 at the downtown Petroleum Club. His topic will be a Newsman's Perspective on the World. Pelley was a White House correspondent for CBS from 1997-1999 and had reported from Bosnia, Afghanistan and Iraq. He also covered the Oklahoma City bombing, the trial of Timothy McVeigh and the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.
Jury problem delays Nichols trial McALESTER, Okla. - Opening arguments in the state murder trial of Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols were delayed today because of a problem with the jury.
McALESTER, Okla. -- A juror in bombing trial of Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols had a heart attack before arriving in court Thursday and was replaced by an alternate. Judge Steven Taylor said the man was hospitalized and is expected to fully recover. His notes were destroyed, and the judge said reporters should not contact him.
McALESTER, Okla. - Jury selection began Monday in the murder trial of Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols after the judge refused to postpone proceedings while the FBI reviews whether investigators suppressed evidence of a wider conspiracy. Nichols, already serving a life sentence on federal charges for his role in the bombing, could get the death penalty if convicted of the state charges.
McALESTER, Okla. -- Terry Nichols went on trial for his life Monday in the Oklahoma City bombing and was alternately portrayed as an eager participant in the attack and a fall guy in a conspiracy wider than the government has acknowledged. Nichols hated the U.S. government and worked hand-in-hand with Timothy McVeigh in assembling and detonating the "huge, monstrous bomb," prosecutor Lou Keel said during opening statements in the state murder trial.
His state trial opens in Oklahoma City bombing
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