The Supreme Court Monday left intact Timothy McVeigh’s conviction and death sentence for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people and injured hundreds more — the worst such attack on U.S. soil. The court, without comment, rejected an appeal in which McVeigh argued his trial was tainted by jury misconduct and news reports that he confessed to his lawyers. In other action Monday, the court refused to free filmmaker Oliver Stone from a lawsuit that says his movie, “Natural Born Killers,” led a couple to shoot a woman during a robbery. It left intact a state appeals court ruling that allowed the lawsuit to go forward because it alleged the filmmakers intended to incite viewers to commit similar crimes. The court also rejected the appeal of a Missouri high school teacher fired for letting her students use large amounts of profanity in class while performing self-written plays.
