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Thursday, September 04, 2003

Killing killers who kill killers

 
It didn't make sense to me when I read that abortion opponents were willing to kill doctors who perform abortions. How much are they for life, I wondered. It makes even less sense now that the state of Florida has killed someone who killed to prevent killing.
Nine years after he calmly shot and killed an abortion doctor and his volunteer escort outside a Pensacola clinic, Paul Jennings Hill died by lethal injection here today as his supporters declared him a martyr and warned that his actions might be replicated.
Mr. Hill, a former Presbyterian minister, is the first killer of an abortion provider to be executed in the United States.
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