News - Accomplice faces death penalty for Oklahoma City bombing

A jury in rural Oklahoma found Terry Nichols guilty on 161 charges of first-degree murder yesterday, making him eligible for the death penalty for his role in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, even though he did not detonate the truck bomb himself and was 200 miles away at home in Kansas when the devastating explosion took place. It took just five hours for the jury to return its verdict after a two-month trial in which evidence in key portions of the defence case - arguing that Nichols was a bit-player in a much broader conspiracy - was withheld by the judge. The six men and six women on the jury in the small town of McAlester, home of the trial, appeared to be untroubled by the fact that first-degree murder charges are almost never applied in cases where the defendant did not personally carry out the killing. siehe auch: Oklahoma-Mittäter schuldig gesprochen