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Jun. 12th, 2004 06:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unclejimboOklahoma plotter spared execution
An accomplice in the Oklahoma bombing has been spared the death penalty after a jury which found him guilty of 161 murders deadlocked over his sentence.
Terry Nichols was already serving a life sentence for his role in the 1995 bombing. Timothy McVeigh was executed in 2001 for setting off the blast.
Under Oklahoma law, a judge cannot issue a death sentence if the jury fails to agree on the punishment.
The outcome is a blow to prosecutors who had been seeking the death penalty.
It is the second time they have been denied the death penalty for Nichols.
I know there are some out there who think that the death penalty is the only one appropriate. For me, I think life without parole in a lot of cases is much more useful. He'll have a long, long time to think about what he's done.
Plus in the case of Nichols, he will be pretty much alone. They really can't put him into general population because he'll be killed very soon after. (Cons HATE child killers.) So in essence, Nichols will live the rest of his life all alone.
I think that is justice.
An accomplice in the Oklahoma bombing has been spared the death penalty after a jury which found him guilty of 161 murders deadlocked over his sentence.
Terry Nichols was already serving a life sentence for his role in the 1995 bombing. Timothy McVeigh was executed in 2001 for setting off the blast.
Under Oklahoma law, a judge cannot issue a death sentence if the jury fails to agree on the punishment.
The outcome is a blow to prosecutors who had been seeking the death penalty.
It is the second time they have been denied the death penalty for Nichols.
I know there are some out there who think that the death penalty is the only one appropriate. For me, I think life without parole in a lot of cases is much more useful. He'll have a long, long time to think about what he's done.
Plus in the case of Nichols, he will be pretty much alone. They really can't put him into general population because he'll be killed very soon after. (Cons HATE child killers.) So in essence, Nichols will live the rest of his life all alone.
I think that is justice.
