Attorneys for Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols say they will try to keep him out of the state's death chamber by claiming he was the fall guy for a group of conspirators.
Nichols trial on Oklahoma state murder charges begins Monday.
His attorneys say they plan to call several witnesses including an inmate who spent time on death row with Timothy McVeigh, and a member of a gang of white supremacist bank robbers.
Defense attorneys say their witnesses will show that Nichols was
at home in Kansas while Timothy McVeigh was actively recruiting and
building a network of people for his plot.
District Judge Steven Taylor has said that conspiracy testimony
will be allowed only if defense attorneys prove that other suspects
committed specific, overt acts to plan and execute the bombing.