On April 19, 1995, at 9:02 a.m. Timothy McVeigh went into the annals of history for committing the single largest domestic terrorist attack in the history of the United States, killing 168 people – 19 of which were children. He was later captured that day by an Oklahoma State Trooper when he was stopped for driving a vehicle without a license plate and being in illegal possession of a firearm, then developed into the suspect of the event, indicted and convicted. On June 11, 2001, at 7:41 a.m. he was executed by the U.S. Government at the Federal Prison Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana (Pitts, 2001).
The case of McVeigh has sparked debates in the academic world as to when and how he became so radicalized that he would become the infamous American Terrorist. I will address some of the critical issues of his case, and will discuss briefly his motive and how he became radicalized to the point of carrying out the nation’s worst domestic terrorist attack.
By all accounts, the evidence against McVeigh was overwhelming, despite the claims that the FBI contaminated evidence at their lab and botched the investigation. The trial took 28 days, and 4 days of jury deliberation – guilty and death penalty (CNN, 1997). Though the …show more content…
During a visit to the Fortier’s home told the Fortiers that he planned to blow up a federal building on the anniversary of Waco and rationalized the loss of life by concluding that anyone working in the federal building was guilty of what happened. He also stated that he figured out how to make a truck bomb and he chose the Murrah building because; 1) the orders for Waco came from there, 2) the building housed people involved in the raid, and 3) the buildings shape and glass front made it an easy target (US v. McVeigh,
The case of McVeigh has sparked debates in the academic world as to when and how he became so radicalized that he would become the infamous American Terrorist. I will address some of the critical issues of his case, and will discuss briefly his motive and how he became radicalized to the point of carrying out the nation’s worst domestic terrorist attack.
By all accounts, the evidence against McVeigh was overwhelming, despite the claims that the FBI contaminated evidence at their lab and botched the investigation. The trial took 28 days, and 4 days of jury deliberation – guilty and death penalty (CNN, 1997). Though the …show more content…
During a visit to the Fortier’s home told the Fortiers that he planned to blow up a federal building on the anniversary of Waco and rationalized the loss of life by concluding that anyone working in the federal building was guilty of what happened. He also stated that he figured out how to make a truck bomb and he chose the Murrah building because; 1) the orders for Waco came from there, 2) the building housed people involved in the raid, and 3) the buildings shape and glass front made it an easy target (US v. McVeigh,