23.8.05

Life Imprisonment

Eric Robert Rudolph will serve the remainder of his life in prison, in a plea deal that spares his life. He was sentenced to serve 4 consecutive life sentences plus 120 years for his decades-long bombing sprees with with anti-abortion and anti-homosexual bombings and peaking with the bombing of the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996. Rudolph continued his bombings of abortion clinics and homosexual clubs, including one attack in 1997 in Atlanta.

Rudolf was grief-stricken and apologetic for his attack in the games that injured more than 100:
"I would do anything to take that night back," Rudolph said.

But the apology was only a partial one and did not mention the 11 people injured in the two other bombings he was sentenced for Monday, one at a gay nightclub and the other at an Atlanta abortion clinic in 1997.

As in past statements, Rudolph said he detonated the bomb at the Olympics because he wanted to force the cancellation of the Summer Games and "confound, anger and embarrass" Washington for sanctioning abortion.
His remorse is limited: he sees no fault in his anti-gay and anti-abortion actions- only justice.

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