In closing arguments, Varnell’s attorney Marna Franklin painted a picture of Varnell as a lonely, troubled young man who was easily influenced by government agents to take part in the bomb plot.
Defendant’s family says he didn’t have a job or a car and could never have pulled off a terrorist bomb plot without encouragement from the FBI.
The FBI paid a man more than $23,000 to participate in sting operation against accused bomb maker Jerry Drake Varnell, according to testimony in a federal trial on Wednesday.
Prosecutors say the proposal could have far-reaching, unintended consequence and clog the courts with old cases.
There are 24 remaining men serving life without parole for drug trafficking in Oklahoma.
Oklahoma did away with life without parole for drug trafficking in 2015, but the law change did little to help people still left in prison.
State officials first investigated changing the name of Lake Hudson after The Frontier reported on its namesake’s ties to the Ku Klux Klan.
Attorneys for Jerry Drake Varnell are fighting to keep the jury from seeing images of an explosion orchestrated by FBI weapons experts.
