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On April 19, 1995 the deadliest act of terrorism took place on U.S. soil when the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building was bombed, killing 168 people. Timothy McVeigh, a Gulf War veteran, was convicted of the bombing under the Anti-Terrorism Law in 1997 and sentenced to death by lethal injection. This will be the first Federal execution since 1963. Recently, the FBI released new documents as evidence in the 1997 trial of the Oklahoma bombing. More than 4,000 documents were withheld …

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…withheld 4,000 pages of documents, surely a new trial would be in. Generally this type of mistake would lead to a mistrial, but this time it didn't. When reporting the news, writers should report the facts and stick with the issue at hand. This hearing was about the FBI and their mistakes, yet the article's main focus was on the bombing. The writer should not use the 1997 trial to influence the readers perspective of this hearing.