Bucho
07-18-2005, 04:45 PM
they're all really good at making bombs, blowing shit up and they're ALL IN THE SAME FUCKING PRISON.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/07/18/rudolph.sentencing/index.html
Rudolph gets life for Birmingham clinic attack
Olympic bomber's sentence is first in plea deal in 4 blasts
Monday, July 18, 2005; Posted: 3:05 p.m. EDT (19:05 GMT)
Confessed bomber Eric Rudolph is led from a Huntsville, Alabama, courthouse after a March court appearance.
(CNN) -- The widow of a Birmingham, Alabama, police officer denounced confessed bomber Eric Rudolph as a "monster" Monday after a federal judge sentenced him to life in prison for the 1998 blast that killed her husband.
U.S. District Judge Lynwood Smith sentenced Rudolph to two life terms in connection with the January 1998 bombing that killed off-duty police officer Robert Sanderson and maimed a nurse, Emily Lyons.
Rudolph has said the Birmingham bombing and three other attacks, including the blast at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, were part of a guerrilla campaign against abortion, "the homosexual agenda" and the U.S. government.
"No matter how he tries to justify his actions and glorify himself, he is a terrorist. He is a murderer," Felicia Sanderson, the officer's widow, told reporters outside the courtroom in Birmingham.
"Don't ever forget that. He's very arrogant. Don't let him be that way. ... Show him for the monster that he is."
In April, Rudolph, 38, avoided the death penalty by pleading guilty to four bombings in the South that killed two people and wounded more than 100 between 1996 and 1998.
He is scheduled to be sentenced August 22 in Atlanta for three blasts, including the Olympics one and 1997 attacks on a lesbian nightclub and suburban women's clinic.
Rudolph likely will serve his time at a "Supermax" federal prison in Florence, Colorado, which also houses "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski and Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
Lyons said she had been waiting 7 1/2 years for the chance to speak to Rudolph face to face, and "the main purpose was to see him and let him know he failed."
"I hope I used the word failure enough that he knows it," she told reporters after the hearing.
Diane Derzis, owner of the New Woman All Women clinic in Birmingham, said Rudolph "didn't stop a single abortion that day."
"We reopened a week later strengthened, committed to what we do," Derzis said.
"And he has taken a woman who was perfectly happy being a nurse, very apolitical, and he has turned her into the most powerful advocate for choice that is possible. ... It was important today to stand up and say, 'What you did made no difference.' "
Rudolph pleaded guilty to the bombings April 13 in exchange for telling investigators where in western North Carolina he had stashed explosives, the Justice Department said.
During negotiations with federal prosecutors, he disclosed the locations of five caches of more than 160 pounds of explosives.
Prosecutors said Rudolph told his friends he detonated a bomb at Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Olympics because "the whole world would be watching."
In his April statement, Rudolph said he targeted the Olympics "to confound, anger and embarrass the Washington government in the eyes of the world for its abominable sanctioning of abortion on demand."
The July 27, 1996, pipe bomb attack killed 44-year-old Alice Hawthorne and injured more than 100 people, including Hawthorne's daughter. A Turkish cameraman, who rushed to cover the aftermath, died of a heart attack.
In the later Atlanta-area blasts, Rudolph targeted federal agents by placing second bombs nearby, set to detonate after police arrived to investigate the first explosion.
In January 1997, at the Northside Family Planning Services clinic in the Atlanta suburb of Sandy Springs, seven people were wounded in the second blast.
In February 1997, four people were wounded in the initial explosion at Atlanta's Otherside Lounge, but police found the second bomb and defused it before it went off.
In his statement, Rudolph described gay rights as "a direct assault on the long-term health and integrity of civilization."
Rudolph's attacks came to an abrupt end after the Birmingham blast. Witnesses tracked him from the scene of the bombing to his truck and wrote down the license number. That number led prosecutors in Birmingham to announce they were seeking to interview him as a material witness.
At that point, Rudolph disappeared into the hills near his home in Murphy, North Carolina.
For five years, he eluded one of the largest manhunts in U.S. history, only to be captured in May 2003 by a rookie police officer who found him foraging in a trash bin behind a grocery store in Murphy.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/07/18/rudolph.sentencing/index.html
Rudolph gets life for Birmingham clinic attack
Olympic bomber's sentence is first in plea deal in 4 blasts
Monday, July 18, 2005; Posted: 3:05 p.m. EDT (19:05 GMT)
Confessed bomber Eric Rudolph is led from a Huntsville, Alabama, courthouse after a March court appearance.
(CNN) -- The widow of a Birmingham, Alabama, police officer denounced confessed bomber Eric Rudolph as a "monster" Monday after a federal judge sentenced him to life in prison for the 1998 blast that killed her husband.
U.S. District Judge Lynwood Smith sentenced Rudolph to two life terms in connection with the January 1998 bombing that killed off-duty police officer Robert Sanderson and maimed a nurse, Emily Lyons.
Rudolph has said the Birmingham bombing and three other attacks, including the blast at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, were part of a guerrilla campaign against abortion, "the homosexual agenda" and the U.S. government.
"No matter how he tries to justify his actions and glorify himself, he is a terrorist. He is a murderer," Felicia Sanderson, the officer's widow, told reporters outside the courtroom in Birmingham.
"Don't ever forget that. He's very arrogant. Don't let him be that way. ... Show him for the monster that he is."
In April, Rudolph, 38, avoided the death penalty by pleading guilty to four bombings in the South that killed two people and wounded more than 100 between 1996 and 1998.
He is scheduled to be sentenced August 22 in Atlanta for three blasts, including the Olympics one and 1997 attacks on a lesbian nightclub and suburban women's clinic.
Rudolph likely will serve his time at a "Supermax" federal prison in Florence, Colorado, which also houses "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski and Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
Lyons said she had been waiting 7 1/2 years for the chance to speak to Rudolph face to face, and "the main purpose was to see him and let him know he failed."
"I hope I used the word failure enough that he knows it," she told reporters after the hearing.
Diane Derzis, owner of the New Woman All Women clinic in Birmingham, said Rudolph "didn't stop a single abortion that day."
"We reopened a week later strengthened, committed to what we do," Derzis said.
"And he has taken a woman who was perfectly happy being a nurse, very apolitical, and he has turned her into the most powerful advocate for choice that is possible. ... It was important today to stand up and say, 'What you did made no difference.' "
Rudolph pleaded guilty to the bombings April 13 in exchange for telling investigators where in western North Carolina he had stashed explosives, the Justice Department said.
During negotiations with federal prosecutors, he disclosed the locations of five caches of more than 160 pounds of explosives.
Prosecutors said Rudolph told his friends he detonated a bomb at Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Olympics because "the whole world would be watching."
In his April statement, Rudolph said he targeted the Olympics "to confound, anger and embarrass the Washington government in the eyes of the world for its abominable sanctioning of abortion on demand."
The July 27, 1996, pipe bomb attack killed 44-year-old Alice Hawthorne and injured more than 100 people, including Hawthorne's daughter. A Turkish cameraman, who rushed to cover the aftermath, died of a heart attack.
In the later Atlanta-area blasts, Rudolph targeted federal agents by placing second bombs nearby, set to detonate after police arrived to investigate the first explosion.
In January 1997, at the Northside Family Planning Services clinic in the Atlanta suburb of Sandy Springs, seven people were wounded in the second blast.
In February 1997, four people were wounded in the initial explosion at Atlanta's Otherside Lounge, but police found the second bomb and defused it before it went off.
In his statement, Rudolph described gay rights as "a direct assault on the long-term health and integrity of civilization."
Rudolph's attacks came to an abrupt end after the Birmingham blast. Witnesses tracked him from the scene of the bombing to his truck and wrote down the license number. That number led prosecutors in Birmingham to announce they were seeking to interview him as a material witness.
At that point, Rudolph disappeared into the hills near his home in Murphy, North Carolina.
For five years, he eluded one of the largest manhunts in U.S. history, only to be captured in May 2003 by a rookie police officer who found him foraging in a trash bin behind a grocery store in Murphy.