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Already serving a federal life sentence for his role in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, Terry Nichols hopes to avoid lethal injection on state charges by emphasizing a key fact: He was at home during the blast that killed 168 people.Nichols trial by the state of Oklahoma begins Monday, with jury selection from a pool of 150 possible jurors.Prosecutors allege that Nichols conspired with Timothy McVeigh to build a 4,000-pound bomb of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil that destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building to avenge the FBI siege at Waco, Texas,
stanley deutschland two years earlier.Nichols attorneys say there is evidence of a wider conspiracy and Nichols was set up by unknown co-conspirators to take the blame for the bombing. McVeigh was convicted on federal murder charges and executed in 2001.Stephen Jones, an attorney who represented McVeigh, said Nichols defense strategy will be difficult to implement. I think it is an uphill climb for Nichols to convince a jury, Jones said But the fact that Nichols was at home in Herington, Kansas, when the bomb went off could make
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stanley cup was one step removed, at least geographically, from what was going on, Coates said.Defense attorneys have said they believe Nichols, 48, cannot receive a fair trial anywhere in Oklahoma: Nichols 1997 federal trial was moved to Denver b Eyah Oklahoma City Bombing Lawsuit
When I was six, there was one piece of Komodo dragon trivia that I held especially dear. A Komodo bite, I ;d been told, was laced with bacteria that could lethally infect prey. Now,
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vaso stanley to what scientists find in any carnivore. Most importantly, the oral flora doesnt posses the pathogenicity required to kill. As for the previous research that found virulent bacter
