Oklahoma City bombing

===Terry Nichols===
{{Main|Terry Nichols}}
Nichols stood trial twice. He was first tried by the federal government in 1997, and found guilty of conspiring to build a weapon of mass destruction and of eight counts of involuntary manslaughter of federal officers.<ref name="NYT">{{cite news|last=Thomas |first=Jo |date=December 28, 1997 |title=December&nbsp;21–27; Nichols Found Guilty in Oklahoma City Case |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/28/weekinreview/december-21-27-nichols-found-guilty-in-oklahoma-city-case.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130605180438/http://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/28/weekinreview/december-21-27-nichols-found-guilty-in-oklahoma-city-case.html |archive-date=June 5, 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref> After he was sentenced on June 4, 1998, to life without parole, the State of Oklahoma in 2000 sought a death-penalty conviction on 161&nbsp;counts of first-degree murder (160 non-federal-agent victims and one fetus).<ref name="Nichols161">{{cite news |last=Davey |first=Monica |date=May 27, 2004 |title=Nichols found guilty of murder |work=[[San Francisco Chronicle]] |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/05/27/MNG8T6SHV51.DTL |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306195134/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2004%2F05%2F27%2FMNG8T6SHV51.DTL |archive-date=March 6, 2012 |url-status=dead|access-date=May 12, 2017 }}</ref> On May 26, 2004, the jury found him guilty on all charges, but deadlocked on the issue of sentencing him to death. Presiding Judge [[Steven W. Taylor]] then determined the sentence of 161&nbsp;consecutive life terms without the possibility of parole.<ref name="NicholsNoParole">{{cite news|last=Talley|first=Tim|date=August 10, 2004|title=Nichols gets 161 life sentences|newspaper=[[The Register-Guard]]|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=-lkUAAAAIBAJ&pg=6920,2076618&dq=nichols+161+no+parole|access-date=June 11, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151125235053/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=-lkUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=kOsDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6920,2076618&dq=nichols+161+no+parole|archive-date=November 25, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> In March 2005, FBI investigators, acting on a tip from [[Gregory Scarpa Jr.]], searched a buried crawl space in Nichols's former house, and found additional explosives missed in the preliminary search after Nichols was arrested.<ref name="2005Expl">{{cite news |agency=Associated Press |title=FBI: Explosives Found in Nichols' Old Home |publisher=Fox News Channel |url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,152211,00.html |date=April 2, 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110208033940/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,152211,00.html |archive-date=February 8, 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref>