Nichols will be tried after McVeigh, but no date has been set. Four FBI workers who evaluated evidence are transferred out of crime lab in wake of federal report critical of lab procedures. Matsch denies defense requests to eliminate testimony of six prosecution eyewitnesses who changed portions of their accounts. The Dallas Morning News reports that McVeigh confessed. Two other reports on purported confession follow.
Opening statements begin.
Prosecutors rest their case after calling 137 witnesses in 18 days. Jury condemns McVeigh to die by injection. McVeigh formally sentenced to death. 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirms conviction. U.S. District Court in Denver denies McVeigh's request for a new trial.