Another bombing trial
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Oklahoma City
The state of Oklahoma formally charged Terry Nichols with murder this week in the Oklahoma City bombing case. Nichols is already serving a life sentence for a federal conviction that he helped plot the attack, but the state murder charges could bring the death penalty. Timothy McVeigh, the mastermind, was executed two years ago. Nichols was also convicted of manslaughter for the deaths of eight federal agents. State prosecutors charged him with 162 murders—for the victims not mentioned in the federal case, and two fetuses whose mothers died in the bombing. The 1995 blast ripped apart the Oklahoma City federal building, killing 168 people.
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