How would you have sentenced Timothy McVeigh?

[angus]

Option 2 would have been best.

I was not on the jury.  I doubt you were either.  Perhaps you have read all the transcripts of the trial and are therefore able to give a detailed description thereof, and hand down an sentence while you're at it.

I do know that a life sentence in a US prison is tantamount to a promise of torture, harassment, rape, and possibly death.  You might as well send him to the gallows and be done with it cheaply and with a clean conscience.