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Home Front: WoT
Olympic bomber gets life term
2005-08-23
Not strictly WoT, but he's a terrorist all the same.
ATLANTA (Georgia) — Atlanta Olympics bomber Eric Rudolph was sentenced to life in prison yesterday for the 1996 attack that killed one woman and injured more than 100 people.

Rudolph was also sentenced for the 1997 bombings of an abortion clinic and a gay nightclub in the Georgia city, in which a total of 11 people were wounded. He received two life sentences last month for killing a police officer and seriously wounding a nurse when he bombed an abortion clinic in Alabama in 1998. Rudolph pleaded guilty to the crimes in April. As part of a plea agreement, he does not face execution.
Pity. I'd like to see if the ACLU would march to save him. I'd have no problem seeing this guy get the needle.
He bombed an event at the summer Olympics in Atlanta on July 27, 1996, killing one woman and wounding 111 people. He was unrepentant at the sentencing in July, declaring that he had bombed the Alabama clinic because he opposes abortion, which is legal but controversial in the United States.

Yesterday, he appeared more “humble,” according to Fallon Stubbs, 23, whose mother, Alice Hawthorne, was killed in the attack. ”It’s not enough,” she added. But John Hawthorne, who would have celebrated his 18th wedding anniversary with Alice Hawthorne Monday, felt differently.

“I sincerely hoped to achieve my objective without harming civilians,” Rudolph said yesterday of the abortion clinic bombing. He also apologised for the Olympics bombing. “I realize it will be no consolation, but I would do anything to take that night back,” he said.

“I just feel justice wasn’t done,” said Mary Agnes Lee, a groundskeeper at Olympic Park whose life was saved by a decision not to pick up the backpack laden with explosives. She has been unable to work since due to anxiety, she said. “I wished for the death penalty for him, I wish he was dead,” she said.
Posted by:Steve White

#1  From Christianity Today:
"They have been so nice, I would hate to break it to them that I really prefer Nietzsche to the Bible."
Convicted murderer Eric Rudolph, sometimes called a "Christian terrorist" for his attacks on two abortion clinics, a gay nightclub, and the 1996 Summer Olympics, on "good people … mostly born-again Christians looking to save my soul."
Posted by: James   2005-08-23 12:53  

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