Friday marks 29 years since man was formally sentenced for Oklahoma City bombing

(CBS, KYMA) - On August 14, 1997, Timothy McVeigh was formally sentenced to death for the Oklahoma City bombing.

Earlier that summer, McVeigh was found guilty on all 11 counts of a federal indictment.

On April 19, 1995, McVeigh drove a truck armed with explosives to the front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building just as the office building was opening for the day.

The explosion destroyed the north half of the building, killing 168 people, including 19 children who were in a daycare center on the second floor.

In a federal indictment, murder charges were brought against McVeigh for only the eight federal agents who were on duty when the bomb destroyed much of the Murrah Building.

Along with the eight counts of murder, McVeigh was charged with conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction, and destroying a federal building.

In 1996, a court granted a change of venue for McVeigh's trial and ordered that the case be transferred from Oklahoma City to the District Court in Denver.

On June 2, 1997, McVeigh was found guilty on all 11 counts of the federal indictment.

McVeigh claimed the attack was revenge against the government for the sieges at Waco (1993) and Ruby Ridge (1992).

McVeigh was executed by lethal injection at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana on June 11, 2001.