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...Florida, Paul Hill became the first person to be tried and found guilty under the new federal law protecting access to abortion clinics. Hill, who, witnesses say, shot and killed a doctor and his bodyguard outside a Pensacola clinic, could get a life sentence on this conviction; he also faces state capital-murder charges. Meanwhile, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, a man picking up his wife from an abortion clinic was charged with attempted murder after allegedly scuffling with and firing a shot at an antiabortion demonstrator. The protester was unhurt...
...took just two hours for a Pensacola, Florida, jury to convict former minister Paul Hill of violating the new federal abortion-clinic access law by shooting an abortion doctor and his bodyguard. He was also convicted of one federal firearm charge. Hill, acting as his own attorney, had played martyr in arguing the June 29 murders of Dr. John Britton and James Barrett were justifiable -- calling no witnesses, cross-examining no one and supplying burning rhetoric in lieu of evidence. His closing statement today: "This government is unjust because it does not protect innocent life. To the extent we take...
Paul Hill, the anti-abortion radical charged with shooting a doctor and his escort outside a Pensacola, Fla., clinic, pleaded not guilty to murder charges. Hill, who had previously pleaded innocent to violating a new federal clinic protection law, had no other comments for the Pensacola judge. Hill-watchers are expecting the activist to turn his trial into another ideological platform. His previous bully pulpit, before the Florida deaths: "Donahue," "Nightline" and other TV shows, where he proclaimed that killing abortionists...
...July 29, Hill shot and killed Dr. John Britton and a clinic volunteer at an abortion clinic in Pensacola, Florida. Almost all elements of the right-to- life movement condemned the killings. But why? After all, the practical effect of such actions is not merely to put one baby killer out of business but to chill the entire practice of abortion in America. Surely during the real Holocaust it would have been "justifiable homicide" to kill a German camp guard, if that would have slowed the feeding of the gas chambers...
Anti-abortion activist Paul Hill pleaded not guilty to a new federal law meant to get tough with protesters who block abortion clinics or threaten clinic employees. Hill is accused of gunning down an abortion doctor and his escort in a Pensacola, Fla. clinic on July 29. Hill's lawyer said that he planned to challenge the constitutionality of the federal law that took effect in May. Separately, Hill faces state charges of murder and attempted murder in connection with the shooting...