19971776 Club
Denver jury sentences McVeigh to death; 168 killed in Oklahoma City, two years past
Eleven days after convicting him on all 11 counts, the same jury recommends execution for the man who built the Murrah Building truck bomb.
Two years after a truck bomb killed 168 people at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, a jury assembled in Denver to decide whether the man who built it would live or die. On June 13, 1997 — eleven days after finding Timothy McVeigh guilty on all 11 federal counts — the same jury recommended the death penalty. Judge Richard Paul Matsch would formalize the sentence, sending McVeigh toward an execution that would not come for another four years…
