Court uphold life sentences for Atlanta Olympics and abortion clinic bomber
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Court uphold life sentences for Atlanta Olympics and abortion clinic bomber

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — A man sentenced to life imprisonment for fatal bombings at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and an Alabama abortion clinic will not get a chance at a new sentence, an appeals court ruled Monday. Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled that Eric Robert Rudolph remains bound to the terms of his 2005 plea agreement in which he accepted multiple life sentences to escape the death penalty. Rudolph argued he was due a new sentence after a 2019 U.S.Supreme Court ruling in which justices found that a statute providing enhanced penalties for using a firearm or deadly device during a “crime of violence” was unconstitutionally vague. Rudolph also set bombs outside a Georgia abortion clinic and an Atlanta nightclub popular with gay people.

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