Court upholds life sentences for Atlanta Olympics and abortion clinic bomber - Gainesville Times

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Court upholds life sentences for Atlanta Olympics and abortion clinic bomber

In this April 13, 2005, file photo, Eric Rudolph, left, is led to a waiting police car by U.S. Marshals as he leaves the Jefferson County Jail for a hearing in Birmingham, Ala. Rudolph, who disappeared into the mountains of North Carolina after he set off a deadly bomb at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, was one of the hundreds of fugitives who have appeared on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. He was captured five years after the Atlanta bombing. - photo by AP Photo/John Bazemore

Eric Rudolph — In this April 13, 2005, file photo, Eric Rudolph, left, is led to a waiting police car by U.S. Marshals as he leaves the Jefferson County Jail for a hearing in Birmingham, Ala. Rudolph, who disappeared into the mountains of North Carolina after he set off a deadly bomb at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, was one of the hundreds of fugitives who have appeared on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. He was captured five years after the Atlanta bombing. - photo by AP Photo/John Bazemore

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.