Eric Rudolph--the anti-choice extremist responsible for a 1998 bombing--was sentenced today to two life terms in prison:
U.S. District Judge Lynwood Smith sentenced Rudolph, 38, who pleaded guilty on April 13 to the Birmingham bombing. On the same day, Rudolph admitted setting off three bombs in Georgia, including one at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta that killed a spectator. He also admitted setting off bombs at an abortion clinic in Sandy Springs, Georgia, and a gay nightclub in Atlanta.
In exchange for Rudolph's guilty pleas, prosecutors agreed to accept multiple life sentences without parole instead of the death penalty.
We can rest a little easier knowing he’s locked up, but the sentiment behind his actions is alive and well.
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Quoth the character Stan of American Dad on the subject of abortion, "We're conservatives, and the one way we don't like to kill things is that way!"
I am pro-life in that I think we should protect life once it is BORN! Thus, while I am pro-choice I am against the death penalty. BUT as I have found myself saying more often in recent weeks, if I was for the death penalty, this is the kind of person I think it should be reserved for.
I am just wondering when charges will be brought against his accomplices, i.e. all of those "pro-lifers" who helped him stay on the lam. If they weren't white, you know they'd be charged as an accessory (at least here in my home in Harris County, Texas).
Benjamin, so funny--I saw that episode, I was dying.