Homegrown terrorist Timothy McVeigh was executed in 2001 for setting the truck bomb that killed 168 and wounded 500 more at the Oklahoma City's Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in 1995.
McVeigh had served in the Army during the Gulf War. After separating from the service, he had a job as a security guard in Buffalo, N.Y., before returning to the Midwest.
It has been suggested that he might have had Al Qaeda connections and that his experiences in the Gulf brought about his hatred of the U.S. government.
McVeigh, then age 28, and his accomplice, Terry Nichols, were arrested almost immediately after the Oklahoma City bombing because they were stupid enough to speed on an Interstate in a car that had no license plate.
McVeigh was convicted in 1997. He remained straight-faced and unrepentant even in the face of execution.
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