Execution Essay: The Oklahoma City Bombing
Oklahoma City Bombing
My paper is about the Oklahoma City Bombing. My paper will include a summary of the event and the charges that the terrorists faced. I will also include information on the youngest survivor, and a famous photo taken showing a firefighter holding a deceased child.
On the treacherous day of April 19, 1995, outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, there was a truck-bomb explosion. The bombing killed 168 people and injured over 680 others. The explosion destroyed or affected 324 buildings, burned and destroyed 86 cars, and shattered glass windows in about 258 buildings that were nearby. The aftermath cost over 652 million dollars. Until September 11, 2001, the Oklahoma City bombing was the worst terrorist attack that took place on U.S. soil.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) activated eleven Urban Search and Rescue Task Forces, that consisted of 665 rescue workers who helped in rescue and recovery operations. Within ninety minutes of the bombing, the perpetrators Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols , was stopped by an Oklahoma State Trooper Charlie Hanger. The pair were driving without a license plate, and then were arrested for illegal weapons possession. They were almost immediately …show more content…
On June 2, 1997, he was convicted on all counts that were charged, and on August 14, he was sentenced to the death penalty. It wasn’t until June 2001, McVeigh who was now 33, died from lethal injection at U.S. penitentiary in Terre Haute Indiana. He was the first prisoner to be put to death since 1963. As for Nichols, he was found guilty on one count of conspiracy, and eight counts of involuntary manslaughter. In 2004, he was sentenced to 161 consecutive life terms. A man named Michael Fortier knew about McVeigh’s plan, and testified to reduce his sentence. In 1998, he was sentenced to twelve years in prison, but in 2007; he was released, and entered the witness protection
My paper is about the Oklahoma City Bombing. My paper will include a summary of the event and the charges that the terrorists faced. I will also include information on the youngest survivor, and a famous photo taken showing a firefighter holding a deceased child.
On the treacherous day of April 19, 1995, outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, there was a truck-bomb explosion. The bombing killed 168 people and injured over 680 others. The explosion destroyed or affected 324 buildings, burned and destroyed 86 cars, and shattered glass windows in about 258 buildings that were nearby. The aftermath cost over 652 million dollars. Until September 11, 2001, the Oklahoma City bombing was the worst terrorist attack that took place on U.S. soil.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) activated eleven Urban Search and Rescue Task Forces, that consisted of 665 rescue workers who helped in rescue and recovery operations. Within ninety minutes of the bombing, the perpetrators Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols , was stopped by an Oklahoma State Trooper Charlie Hanger. The pair were driving without a license plate, and then were arrested for illegal weapons possession. They were almost immediately …show more content…
On June 2, 1997, he was convicted on all counts that were charged, and on August 14, he was sentenced to the death penalty. It wasn’t until June 2001, McVeigh who was now 33, died from lethal injection at U.S. penitentiary in Terre Haute Indiana. He was the first prisoner to be put to death since 1963. As for Nichols, he was found guilty on one count of conspiracy, and eight counts of involuntary manslaughter. In 2004, he was sentenced to 161 consecutive life terms. A man named Michael Fortier knew about McVeigh’s plan, and testified to reduce his sentence. In 1998, he was sentenced to twelve years in prison, but in 2007; he was released, and entered the witness protection