DENVER (AP) -- A federal judge in Denver has dismissed claims by Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols that prison officials violated his constitutional rights by depriving him of a diet he requested for health and religious reasons.
U.S. District Judge Christine Arguello said in a ruling issued Monday that Nichols didn't support his claims that a diet insufficient in whole grains, fiber and raw fruits and vegetables amounts to cruel and unusual punishment and violates his right to free exercise of religion.
Nichols sued officials last year at the federal Supermax prison in Florence in southern Colorado.
He is serving life for conspiracy and involuntary manslaughter in the 1995 federal building bombing that killed 168 people.
Timothy McVeigh was convicted of murder and executed.
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