World News 04-09-2003 Abortion Vigilante Executed who: Murderer Paul Hill what: Unrepentant as he is executed for killing abortion doctor where: Florida, USA when: Yesterday snippet: "May God help you to protect the unborn as you would want to be protected," said unrepentant murderer Paul Hill yesterday moments before he was executed in Florida State Prison for the killing of an abortion doctor and his bodyguard. "At 6.08pm - eight minutes after a combination of three sedatives and lethal drugs were administered - Hill, who was married with three children, was declared dead by two doctors," says The Independent. "He was the first person in the US to be executed for an anti-abortion killing." "Some 300 law enforcement officers were drafted in to stand guard outside the prison in case of trouble, but the execution passed off peacefully," says the BBC`s Fergal Parkinson from outside the prison. Hill shot and killed Dr John Britton, 69, and his driver-bodyguard, James Barrett, 74, a retired air force lieutenant colonel, outside a Pensacola abortion clinic in July 1994, recalls The Scotsman`s Jacqui Goddard. He claimed it was "justifiable homicide" because the doctor "would likely kill thousands of unborn children". [... more]

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