After deliberating for 20 hours over three days, the jurors who recently found Terry Nichols (pictured) guilty of murder in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing expressed some of the anguish that choosing between life and death caused them. “It was tough. We had found it much easier to arrive at a guilty verdict, but the penalty phase was much harder,” said juror Terry Zellmer. Cecil Reeder, a Korean War veteran who supported the death penalty for Nichols, said, “This shook me as deep as I’ve ever been shook in my life.” Some of the jurors implied that Nichols’ religious conversion in the years after the bombing and the fact that he was not in Oklahoma City on the day of the bombing may have contributed to 4 or 5 votes for life. The jury’s split verdict leaves the sentencing for Nichols to the judge, who by law cannot impose a death sentence. Nichols is already serving a life without parole sentence on a federal conviction in the bombing. (Dallas Morning News, June 13, 2004) See Life Without Parole.