Criminal Justice

 
Timothy McVeigh History
Timothy McVeigh was one of the terrorists who was most feared in the US in the 20th century. According to available classifications, he is considered to be a local terrorist since his origin is the US and the country of his terrorist acts is the US too. He was born on the 23rd of April in 1968. Timothy was born on the outskirts of New York, specifically in Lockport. He was the son of American parents who had some Irish roots namely Mildred and William. In his family, he was the only boy amongst his three sisters (Sam 2011).
Basically, he had a troubled childhood since his parents divorced when he was quite young at the age of 10. Upon his parents’ divorce, Timothy’s custody remained with his father who later moved to Pendleton, still in New York. It is in this neighborhood that Timothy McVeigh was brought up by his father. In his early years, he was a very shy boy who talked less and in school, he was the target for most bullies. He attended Commodore 64 for his high school education where he had much interest in computers and at one time he hacked a website belonging to the US government.
Timothy McVeigh later developed a love for guns from the instance his grandfather introduced him to them. At times in an effort to show off, he is reported to have carried guns while going to school. He is said to have told his friends that in future he wanted to own a gun shop. This marked the beginning of his criminal allure. After high school, he joined Stratton College and never stayed there for long and withdrew. His next stop was joining the army and ended up graduating aged 20 years in the year 1988. While in the army, he read a lot on being a sniper and guns in general.
While serving in the army, he was warned for wearing a t-shirt which was against black army members. Also while in the army, he was deployed to Kuwait. He killed an opponent soldier in his first day of deployment, later he would kill several other prisoners in his Kuwait deployment. He also served in the Gulf War where he gained interest in joining the Special Forces but dropped. He served in the military until 1991 when he left having been awarded a number of medals and honors.
After he left the army, he had troubles and difficulties finding a lover, and this led him to excessive gambling. He is said to have written letters to the government containing complains about high taxation and arrest of people who in his opinion termed them innocent. Later in 1993, he learned of a siege in Texas called “Waco Siege”, when he went and openly campaigned for gun ownership rights through printed pamphlets. Five months following this incidence, he worked in numerous shows involving guns. In Texas too, he met two of his terrorism accomplices who showed him how to make explosives.
He went on with anti-government campaigns against gun laws and drugs such as alcohol and marijuana. The culmination of his activities was in April 1995 when he planned the bombing of a state-owned building in Oklahoma, the Federal Building. In total, 160 people died and 8 security officers. Close to 1000 people sustained injuries in the terrorist act. His reason for bombing the building was to reiterate against security forces sieges for instance at Waco and others. Later, after the bombing, he was arrested by Charles J Hanger. His charges were driving a car without proper identification and illegal ownership of a gun (Serge 42).
Later, he was identified as the individual behind the Oklahoma bombing. His trial for the bombing began in August 1995. He was sentenced in 1997 but appealed the ruling. Some of his appeals were rejected and in 1999 he gave up on the appeals. During all this period he was detained at ADX Prison in Florence. At the ADX, a fellow convict tried to convert his religion to Islam but never succeeded. After dropping his appeals, Timothy McVeigh was transferred to the US Penitentiary in India in the same year. He stayed there until 11 June of the year 2001 when he was executed through an injection. This marked the end of an anti-government crusader and a local terrorist who used literature to convey most of his messages to the general public.
History of Eric Rudolf
Just like Timothy McVeigh, he is considered a local terrorist in the US. He was born in the year 1966 on the 19th of September. Just like Timothy, his criminal acts took place in the late 19th century between the years 1996 and 1998. This marked two years in which Eric Rudolf caused terror in the US. The reason for most of his bombings is said to protest against gay-relationships in the US and abortion. His bombings and criminal activities led to the deaths of 2 civilians and at the same time more than 120 sustained injuries.
Rudolf is said to have been born in Florida. The specific location of his birth is said to be the Islands of Merritt. In the year 1981, he suffered a setback when his father died and he had to be brought up by his mother. Rudolf had other siblings who are not known except for his brother. After his father died, his mother vacated together with the other family members to North Carolina.
In North Carolina, he started going to school at Nantahala School but he later quit and decided to join his brother. His brother was older than him and taught him about carpentry job. When Rudolf reached 18 years, he often spent time with his Christian mother in a church compound located in Missouri.
Later in his life, he joined the army where he underwent the training in Georgia. He left the army training and served in the American Air Force. He did not serve there for long since in the year 1989 he was dismissed from the US army. He was accused of using marijuana when serving in a government security institution. Prior to his dismissal, he had attended an air training school in Campbell to further his military education where he performed extremely well.
After he was dismissed from the army, Rudolf’s life remains quite unknown. In 1996, there were Olympic Games which were held in the US. They were in the city of Atlanta. Rudolf took this opportunity to conduct his first bombing, which happened on the 27th of July in the same year. He is said to have planted a time bomb and went ahead to alert the police that he had planted a bomb. He did this before the bomb exploded. Finally, it exploded where it caused the death of one spectator. In addition, about 111 civilians watching the games were injured. Also, a cameraman died of shock after witnessing the scene. For this bombing, he said he had done it for political reasons. He carried out other bombings in Sandy Springs at an abortion health center, in 1997 at a bar frequented by lesbian clients. The 1997 bombing was in Atlanta where 5 sustained injuries. In 1998, he carried out a bombing in Alabama killing two and injuring one (Wyatt 2005).
After the Alabama bombings, he was put on the FBI watch list as a wanted criminal. He escaped arrest as a fugitive until 2003 when he was arrested by a police officer named Scott Postel. This was in May; however, his trial for the criminal acts began in October 2003. His trial lasted until 2005, where he had to plead guilty to avoid being sentenced to death. However, he was jailed for life and is currently being held at the ADMAX Prison which is located in Florence (Dan 2018).
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