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Show Al2 The Salt Lake Tribune NATION Friday, May 7, 1999 Doctor’s Killer Unrepentant After 5 Years in Prison Fugitive Is Sought in °98 Killing Of New York Abortion Doctor Self-proclaimed martyrclaimsabortion murders werejustified and says he wouldkill again if set free KNIGHT-RIDDER NEWS SERVICE STARKE, Fla. — Of 54 inmates on death row at Florida State Prison, onlyone, said a guard, remains unrepentant Paul Hill, Inmate No. 459364 whofive years ago murdered a doctor and his escort at a Florida abortion clinic, is free from remorseand filled with belief in his anti-abortion cause. “1 wouldn't advise them to give me myshotgun back and let me go,” Hill said, smiling, “unless they wantedasimilar outcome.” Theywill not let him go. Hill has waived his right to appeals, and awaits a certain fate in this landscape of razor wire and dun- liever willing to sacrifice himself — and others — to thecause. Hill as he walked past a barbecue joint 500 feet away. “Onethingis Christian Identity movement, which preaches violence in the with murder Thursday in theslaying of a doctor who was cut down in his kitchen bya sniper’s bullet cording to deArmond, who has studied religious and right-wing extremism. whereabouts are unknown. ror and murder.” Still, he has his passionate ad- wire-rim glasses have been re- At a White Rose banquet in Bowie “We have probable cause to believe this man, James Kopp, is re- Michael Bray, the pastor of a small Lutheran church in Bowie, Md., who has a “Free Paul Hill” wedding ring adorned his hands. to raise money for the families of capacitate the doctor that day? abortion movement,a letter from ers have rejected Hill, describing his views as sinful or, as oneactiv- ist put it, “toobizarreto be real The Rev. Philip “Flip” Benham. director of the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue Nation- al, disavows Hill, saying he com- mitted “an act of cowardice, termirers. Among themis the Rev bumper sticker on his Chevy Sub n expert on extremist groups, Paul deArmond, says that while nocent children. minister, demonstrated why the battle over abortion rights may not ever be settled at the polls or in the courts Hill said he would not rule out the use of chemical or biological weapons by anti-abortion activ. ists, that it ma Just” to assas. sinate Supreme Court justices whosupport Roe vs. Wade, that anyfaith other than “true” Chris: tian worship is in the service of Satan and that abortion foes who share his views are readyto en- gagein moreviolence “We have instigated moreviolence because police are more small, “the support network is enormous. t has been nearly five years before 7:30 a.m., Hill fired. Hefata ot John Bayard Britton, 69, and Britton’s escort Since Gunn's murder in 1993, six doctors and clinie workers have James Barrett, 74, retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, in the tion provider in Buffalo, N.Y. On and wounded Barrett's Tolbertsaid. charged James Kopp, a 44-yearold anti-abortion activist from the shot, then reburying it and fleeing. Kopp also has been linked, charge of violating the Freedom through DNAtesting,to a strand of hair found near wherethesnip er fired, law-enforcement sources havesaid. by using deadly force against an abortion doctor. Both chargescarrypenalities of upto life in prison. The federal chargealso carries a fine of up to Nicknamed the “Atomic Dog” $250,000. in anti-abortion circles, Kopp had tensify the ongoing international since 1990 for protesting abertion. ‘The newlyfiled chargeswill in- He said he hopes ‘‘a few people making symbolicacts such as the one I made would cause people to Thursday, New York authorities with the killer digging it upto fire murder, Kopp faces a federal mass murder,it’s hard for me to been arrested in several states hunt, Tolbert said. In response to the newcharges, His car was spotted in Slepian's Koppis a suspectin sniper shoot- suburban Amherst neighborhood in the weeks before the shooting, come to grips with the [abortion] Canadianofficials confirmed that resolved without an undue amount of chaos. Whetherit will come to war, I don’t know. I could see that it is possible.” ings that injured abortion doctors in November in Vancouver,British Columbia; Winnipeg, Manitoba; and Hamilton, Ontario. issue lieve the weapon may have been buried in advanceof the shooting, of Access to Clinic Entrances Act escape the conclusion that it would be just for someone tokill them. But I'm not altogether certain it would bewise.” killed Barnett Slepian, an abor- wasshot witha rifle. Authorities have said they Be- In addition to a state charge of micide.” Hill said: “Considering the majority of them [justices] favor fin, is serving a life sentence. scope-equippedrifle buried near the Slepian home represented a major breakthrough. Slepian, 52, the Oct. 23 slaying. Up until Thursday, however, they had deseribed himonly as a material witness wanted for questioning — nota suspect. that assassinating Supreme Court justices would be “justifiable ho- Andthething could be la said last month’s discovery of a ing for Kopp since shortly after Roy MeMillan, a Hill defender d Barnett Slepian Investigators would not divulge the evidence against Kopp but Investigators have been search- secution served to heighten my joy,” Hill wrote. beenslain. Last October, a sniper r James Kopp nett Slepian,” FBI agent Bernard “The threat of heightened per- placed David Gunn, whowas shot shotgun and 14 shells. When a Within minutes. police stopped sponsiblefor the death of Dr. Bar- Hill and other activists in the antiHill was read aloud. abortions whenheran into money problemsafter being disciplined by state medical authorities for abortion clinic 15 months earlier Gunn's murderer, Michael Grif- Kopp,44, of St. Albans, Vt. His event organized by the Rev. Bray Christian Action Group, has said and killed at Pensacola’s other Federal and state arrest warrants were issued for James a dinner whois in the Mississippi-based unrelated offenses. He had re- wife. June, 68, a retired nurse last January, just became: I had tokill him.” Britton, a self-described atheist, had turned to performing 1994, he lay in wait in the parking lot outside the Pensacola Ladies Center with a loaded 12-gauge head, serviceof “the one true God,” ac- “In my thinking,” Hill said, “it since Hill's crimes. On July 29 pickuptruck approachedshortly treme views,is aligned with the “If [ wounded him, just shot racks 50 miles southwest of Jacksonville Last week, during the course of or doctors whooffer abortions is by his church yearsagoforhis ex- Whydidn’t he simply colored military-style prison bar the number of people carrying out deadly violenceagainst clinics Hill, who was excommunicated placed by tortoise-shell bifocals. Handcuffs, a sport watch and him in the leg or shoulder, I knew there was an excellent probability that he would returntokilling in- room the size of an office cubicle, Hill, 45, a former Presbyterian BUFFALO, N.Y. — An abortion foe who is the subject of an international hunt was charged forsure,” heyelled as theytook himinto custody, ‘no innocentbabies will die in thatclinic today Today, he looks muchthe same as the tall, trim, sandy-haired man who pulled thetrigger. At theinterview, Hill worea trafficcone-orange prison shirt, blue athletic pants and sneakers, His Mainstreamanti-abortion lead. urban, along with onethat reads ecute Murderers/Abortion- an hour in a prison interview THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Vermont, with his murder. 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