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...March 10, 1993, in Pensacola, Florida, Michael Griffin, a "deeply religious" man, shot physician David Gunn three times in the back. Gunn was on his way into a health care facility where he offered reproductive services, including abortion. The response of the anti-choice (they ironically call themselves "pro-life") community? Operation Rescue's Randall Terry called the killing of Dr. Gunn "an inappropriate, repulsive act." The U.S. Catholic Conference said the "violence of the killing makes a mockery of the pro-life cause...
...call on all Americans, regardless of their personal views about abortion and reproductive choice, to join together in opposition to the anti-abortion terrorism perpetrated this past Friday, December 30, in Brookline, Massachusetts, and also in Pensacola, Florida and elsewhere," Fineberg said in a statement first released last week...
...appears that Paul Hill won't serve the two life terms to which he was sentenced just last week. Today a judge sentenced the antiabortion activist to death in the electric chair for slaying an abortion doctor and his bodyguard outside a Pensacola, Florida abortion clinic. Hill listened with a blank look on his face as Judge Frank Bell read his sentence. But an abortion foe who was in court yelled out: "This man is innocent and his blood will be on your hands, the hands of the people of the state of Florida and on the jury!" The judge...
...Florida jury recommended death for antiabortion extremist Paul Hill after convicting him of murdering Dr. John Britton and his escort James Barrett outside a Pensacola clinic in July. Hill, already convicted on federal charges, had told the jury beforehand, "You may mix my blood with the blood of the unborn ... However, truth and righteousness will prevail." A judge will decide later whether to impose the death sentence...
...Pensacola jury took just 20 minutes today to convict Paul Hill of murder in theJuly shotgun killings of an abortion doctorand his bodyguard. Hill now faces either life in prison or death in the electric chair -- a fate determined when the jury returns Thursday. Hill, acting as his own lawyer, offered no defense during his three-day trial. Hill had ambushed Dr. John B. Britton, 69; his unarmed bodyguard, James H. Barrett, 74; and Barrett's wife, June, 68, as the three arrived at the Ladies Center clinic on July 29. He was barred from arguing that the slayings were...