Florida Executes Anti-abortion Militant

World | September 4, 2003, Thursday // 00:00
Florida Executes Anti-abortion Militant The body of anti-abortion militant Paul Hill is loaded into a hearse outside of Florida State Prison following his execution Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2003. Photo by AP

Florida executed by injection anti-abortion militant Paul Hill on Wednesday, who became the first person executed in the United States for murdering a doctor who performed abortions. Paul Hill, 49, was condemned for the July 29, 1994, shooting deaths of Dr. John Bayard Britton and his bodyguard, retired Air Force Lt. Col. James Herman Barrett, and the wounding of Barrett's wife outside the Ladies Center in Pensacola. He was pronounced dead at 6:08 p.m. EDT at the Florida State Prison in Starke, remaining defiant even as he was strapped to a gurney.

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