http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/04/08/rudolph.plea/index.html
According to the article he’s pleading gulty to avoid being sentenced to death.
I’d really like to see him tried for at least one of the bombings. We’ll never know his true motives or if he had anybody helping him.
Cnn link for the previous post.
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I will remember to preveiw…d’oh!
I love how abortion always comes up when discussing the death penalty. The guy is a used douch nozzle. Why should his life be spared?
According to The Times he was spared death because he plead guilty and disclosed where he buried his arsenal.
If true this is the best argument for the Death Penalty I have seen yet.
Abortion comes up because he bombed abortion clinics, nimrod. RTFA.
So is he actually guilty of all these crimes[ul]
[li]January 1998 bombing of a women’s clinic[/li][li]attack at a concert in Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Olympics[/li][li]two bombings an hour apart at a suburban women’s clinic in January 1997[/li][li]a bombing at a lesbian nightclub in February that same year[/li][/ul] or is he also copping a plea to take the heat off his fellow terrorists?
He pled guilty to all of it and the physical evidence is pretty strong that he did all of it. Is there any reason to think that he wasn’t acting alone?
As to the OP, death is too good for this guy. Why should he be able to get a nice shot in the arm and go to sleep? Let him rot in a shit hole for 50 or 60 years. That’s what he deserves.
This guy’s a cop killer too, by the way. Complete human garbage. It amazes me that some people have turned him into a folk hero.
But is it a slam dunk? Is there any reason to think he’s not associated with a larger terrorist organization?
He was arrested while foraging through a dumpster and was visibly emaciated. It’s circumstancial, but it doesn’t seem like a guy that’s part of a larger support network.
All it takes is one anti-abortion nutbar on the jury, and he could potentially walk. The odds of that are not bad at all, especially once you death-qualify the jury (since big-time abortion opponents tend to support the death penalty, and vice versa).
I think this is a good outcome.
I remember thinking this was hysterical as several times the Talking Heads of the Media mentioned “Rudolph is a man who knows how to live off the land and will never have any need to approach civilization… he’ll hide out in the caves and forests of the southeastern seaboard for years and never miss a meal”. When they found him the only thing he seemed particularly concerned with was how many breakfasts he could have at the jail (he ate two and asked for a third but was denied).
While it’s not believed Rudolph is a member of a well organized terrorist group, it is generally believed that his brother Daniel was his… ahem… right hand man.
And the message was sent, loud and clear: “Daniel Rudolph is an idiot.”
What can you say about a family where one person can chop off his own hand with a power saw and still not be the craziest one in the family?
I agree that his actions are terribly confusing.
Any word on what his beef was with the Olympics? I get that he hated abortions and homosexuals, but what exactly was his purpose, if any, for the seemingly random bombing of people in the concert at the Olympics?
Besides his confession, is there any hard evidence that ties him to that bombing? With the history of that investigation, it’s not outside of the realm of my imagination that the feds could get him to cop to that as a condition of his plea bargain.
So you can be a serial terrorist/bomber/anti-abortion nutjob and still live? His victims were executed for far less–really, for nothing at all.
stupidest. game of one-upmanship. ever.
Meh. A real man would have cut it off with a hand saw.
Perhaps he just wanted to give his brother a hand.
As mentioned above, I don’t understand what his motive was for the Olympic Park bombing? What did he hope to gain, other than notoriety?
Just a WAG, but maybe he thought he had to broaden his aim in order to attract attention to his cause.