8/19/2003
Execution set for abortion doctor slayer
A Sept. 3 execution date has been set for Paul Hill, the anti-abortion activist convicted of murdering an abortion doctor and the doctor's unarmed bodyguard in 1994. Some fear the execution will be used as a rallying tool for violent fringe of anti-abortion movement which plans hold him up as a martyr to the cause. Something he has already encouraged by essentially volunteering to be executed. (See the Pensacola News Journal story for more background.)
Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty is urging Gov. Bush not to sign the death warrant. The group argues that not only will this execution have no deterrent effect, it will actually encourage renewed clinic violence.
Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty is urging Gov. Bush not to sign the death warrant. The group argues that not only will this execution have no deterrent effect, it will actually encourage renewed clinic violence.
