Timothy McVeigh’s Counsel Speaks Out: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Defense Team’s First Priority is “To Save His Life”
San Jose, CA – May 6, 2013 – In an exclusive interview on The Costa Report, defense attorney, Stephen Jones, compared the case against Boston Marathon terrorist, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, to the case against Timothy McVeigh, the young man charged, convicted, and executed for the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City. According to Jones, who led McVeigh’s defense team, proving Dzhokhar’s innocence due to “diminished capacity,” or any other reason, is secondary to the defense’s ethical and legal responsibility to avoid capital punishment. He said, “Our first objective is
