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Originally posted by FeeFee
I hope he doesn't think he's going to heaven for his "deed". He's in for a rude awakening!!! 
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oh but he does think he is going to heaven. and he also thinks he will be looked at as a martyr. Here's the article from usatoday.com:
Posted 9/2/2003 11:28 PM Updated 9/3/2003 5:30 AM
Abortion foe faces execution in Fla.
By Deborah Sharp, USA TODAY
Paul Hill is scheduled to be executed in Florida Wednesday, still convinced that he was doing God's work when he killed a doctor and an abortion clinic volunteer in Pensacola, Fla., in 1994.
"The sooner I am executed ... the sooner I am going to heaven," Hill told reporters in a prison news conference Tuesday. "I expect a great reward in heaven. I am looking forward to glory. I don't feel remorse. More people should act as I have acted."
Barring a stay, Hill, 49, will be the first person in the nation to be executed for murder related to anti-abortion extremism.
Mainstream groups that oppose abortion have denounced violent activists such as Hill and Eric Rudolph, who is awaiting trial for a 1998 clinic bombing in Birmingham, Ala., that killed an off-duty police officer. But Hill has supporters who call him a hero.
"He did kill somebody, but it was justifiable homicide," says the Rev. Donald Spitz, director of Pro-Life Virginia and Hill's spiritual adviser. "Those babies needed to be protected."
Abortion-rights advocates fear Hill's execution will create a martyr and reignite the type of violence by fringe groups that left seven doctors or clinic workers dead in the 1990s.
"We're extremely concerned about a backlash," says Vicki Saporta, president of the National Abortion Federation. "They've proven they will stop at nothing — including murder — to advance their agenda."
The national group's 400 member clinics have increased security because of the execution, Saporta says.
In Florida, several state officials received bullets in the mail in recent weeks, with anonymous letters warning of violence in the event of Hill's execution. Gov. Jeb Bush, a convert to the Roman Catholic faith who opposes abortion, has been threatened in Internet chat rooms for signing Hill's death warrant.
Abortion remains a polarizing issue. But violence at clinics has waned, partly because of aggressive prosecution of extremists and federal laws that ban blockades.
About 1.3 million abortions are performed in the USA annually, down from 1.6 million in 1990, according to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, which researches reproductive issues.
Public opinion has shifted slightly since the Supreme Court ruling in 1973 that granted women the right to legal abortions: In 1975, 22% of Americans polled by Gallup said the procedure should always be illegal. This year, 18% felt the same way, according to a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll.
The last murder of a U.S. abortion provider occurred in 1998, when Barnett Slepian was shot through the window of his home in Amherst, N.Y. James Kopp, who has been linked to other abortion-related shootings in the USA and Canada, is serving 25 years to life in the Slepian case.
Hill's execution by lethal injection, at Florida State Prison near Starke, is scheduled for 6 p.m. Supporters plan prayer vigils and a moment of silence in Hill's honor.
Contributing: Associated Press
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...ion-usat_x.htm
because it would depend on how you really define the label "terriost".
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