Birmingham, Ala.
An unrepentant Eric Rudolph was sentenced to two terms of life in prison this week for the deadly 1998 bombing of an Alabama abortion clinic. “Abortion is murder,” he said, “and because it is murder I believe deadly force is needed to stop it.” Rudolph avoided the death penalty by pleading guilty to the bombing, which killed an off-duty police officer. He also admitted other attacks, including the 1996 bombing at the Atlanta Olympics, and directed police to dynamite he stashed while hiding for five years in the North Carolina mountains. “It gives me great delight,” the clinic’s director, Diane Derzis, told Rudolph, “to know you are going to spend the rest of your life sitting in an 8-by-12 box.”
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