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Supreme Court lets McVeigh conviction stand
The Supreme Court today let stand the conviction and death sentence of Timothy McVeigh for the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City that killed 168 people.
The court declined McVeigh's appeal, which argued that his trial was compromised by jury misconduct and pretrial reports in the media that he confessed to his attorneys.
McVeigh was sentenced in Aug. 1997 to death by lethal injection, following convictions on first-degree murder, conspiracy and weapons-related charges for the Apr. 19, 1995 bombing.
Last September, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld McVeigh's sentence.
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