Only white people who commit terrorist acts are fully responsible and can be punished with the death penalty. Timothy McVeigh was put to death in what must be an all time record for least amount of days spent on death row. Found guilty and sentenced to death on June 13, 1997 he was executed on June 11, 2001. He was the first Federal prisoner executed since 1993.
The two crimes seem nearly identical. In both cases US Government buildings were targeted by groups unhappy with US Policy and massive destruction and death occurrred.
However in this case the accused is not a white man, but a black. I seriously doubt Holder and Obama’s over-developed sense of racial grievances (including the longstanding “inequitable sentences” canard) would allow either one to go for the death penalty when the perp is a person from a group qualified for affirmative action preferences.
Correction: should read “first Federal prisioner executed since 1963, not 1993.”