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Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols: Crimes, Incarceration, and the Supermax Prison System

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Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols: Crimes, Incarceration, and theSupermax Prison SystemCompare and contrast the characteristics of the previously listed individuals.Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were responsible for theOklahoma City bombing, theattack killed 168 people and injured over 600.It was the deadliest act of terrorism within theUnited States prior to theSeptember 11 attacks.In thespring of 1992, Nichols extremist political views led him to renounce his U. S. citizenship.In a letter sent to a state agency, Nichols wrote: "I am no longer a citizen of the corrupt politicalcorporate state of Michigan and the United States of America."Later that year, in court overcredit card debt, Nichols unsuccessfully tried to argue that the court lacked jurisdiction over himbecause of his lack of citizenship.Following his discharge from the Army, Nichols spent considerable time with TimothyMcVeigh.The two reinforced each other's anti-government hatred and traveled together to gunshows.At the Nichols farm on April 19, 1993, the two men watched television together--inshared outrage--as the Branch Davidian compound near Waco went up in flames, killing nearly80 people.Beginning in 1994, Nichols and McVeigh began implementing plans to blow up the MurrahFederal Building in Oklahoma City.Together, they purchased or stole key ingredients for thebomb.Nichols continued to assist in the bombing plans right up to the day before the explosion. (Hetold McVeigh that he didn't want to be involved on the day of the bombing.) Nichols drove toOklahoma City with McVeigh on April 16 to station a getaway car.Two days later, he helpedMcVeigh load explosives from a Kansas storage unit into the Ryder truck, and then metMcVeigh near Geary Lake, Kansas, to assist in mixing the ingredients.Retrieved from:http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/mcveigh/conspirators.html

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