As someone who lived in Oklahoma City and witnessed this atrocity, I had to sort of make peace and trust that someone, something, somehow, the person(s) who planned and carried it out will get theirs. I HAVE to believe that.

I worked downtown for most of the time I lived there and I have never seen such a mass/collective PTSD. EVERYONE would look askance at a slow-speed Ryder truck; everyone would jump when a loud noise was heard.

I guess it's quite obvious that the bombing affected me greatly; I cannot imagine what it must be like to live in NYC.

My question is...since the jury and others who have gone throught this tragedy are the people who have gone though this (Ok,that made sense)....why the hell would any DECENT human beeing let some MFer like him get off the hook with only jail?And why the hell would anyone waste their (a/k the people in the jury,in whose hand this sentence lays)tax-money on keeping this piece of shit alive?!?
Kill me....but I would go and hope that someone in that jail has the common sense to just KILL him and then hopefully he'll get away with it because someone else with comkon sense says that his killing was an "accident"!

There is small comfort in this quote from the sentencing judge:

Responding to his statement, the judge called Nichols a "terrorist" and the "No. 1 mass murderer in all of U.S. history."

"Your criminal acts in this case are historic in proportion," the judge said. "What could motivate you to do this? There are no answers."

Taylor said if he could legally order it, he would require Nichols to place photographs of all 161 victims on the walls of his prison cell.

"The shadow and cloud of that day will hover over that prison cell," the judge said.

I won't even get into my feelings regarding the expense that the Oklahoma County District Attorney afforded to this trial. I think it was necessary, maybe. In fact, the quotes from the surviving family members are quite poignant in that they're glad he'll have the rest of his life to ruminate on his actions.

Says a lot about them, really.

Emma has a point. He might suffer more alive. Alive, but jumping in fear every time another inmate approaches him.