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Abortion clinic killer convicted
DEDHAM, Mass. — Rejecting claims that John C. Salvi III was driven by delusions of a vast anti-Catholic conspiracy, a jury yesterday convicted him of murdering two women in a shooting rampage at two abortion clinics.
The Associated Press
The 24-year-old loner received the mandatory sentence of life in prison with no parole for the 1994 attacks in the Boston suburb of Brookline.
As the verdicts were read, Salvi, who had repeatedly disrupted proceedings earlier in the case with demands to air his conspiracy notions, stood quietly, staring vacantly or bowing his head.
The jury deliberated nine hours in two days. Four of the six women on the jury cried as the verdicts were read, as did friends and relatives of the victims, and Salvi's mother.
Salvi's lawyer, J.W. Carney Jr., had argued that his client was innocent by reason of insanity, and he repeatedly had asked Judge Barbara Dortch-Okara to declare Salvi incompetent to stand trial.
The defense contended that the aspiring hairdresser envisioned himself a warrior fighting a worldwide, anti-Catholic conspiracy led by the
Salvi was arrested the next day when he fired at least 23 shots at the windows and doors of a Norfolk, Va., abortion clinic.
After the verdict, Salvi told the court, "As you know, I haven't pled guilty, though I am against abortion." He also asked the judge in a rambling statement for permission to speak to the public by television from prison, but the judge said that would be up to prison officials and cut Salvi off.
Prosecutors argued that Salvi was in control of his senses and deliberately planned his crime. They noted Salvi practiced at a firing range the day before the killings, stocked up on 1,000 deadly hollow-point bullets and cut his longish, curly hair hours after the attack.
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Rejecting the insanity defense, the jury convicted Salvi of two counts of first-degree murder and five of assault with intent to murder. First-degree murder carries a mandatory sentence of life without parole. Massachusetts has no death penalty.
Upon hearing the verdict, Salvi's father came to his wife's aid as she doubled over in her seat. "Just leave me alone," she said as her husband rubbed her back and her only child was led away.
If Salvi had been found not guilty by reason of insanity, he would have been committed to a mental hospital and could have been released if authorities deemed he was no longer a danger.
Salvi walked into a Planned Parenthood clinic on Dec. 30, 1994, pulled out a .22-caliber rifle and opened fire. Receptionist Shannon Lowney, 25, was killed and three other people in the waiting room were wounded.
Then, he drove his pickup about two miles to the Preterm Health Services clinic and opened fire again, killing receptionist Lee Ann Nichols, 38, and wounding two others.
'The president of the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts hailed the verdict. "I think it will help to de-escalate the climate of fear and violence that has surrounded the services that we provide," Nicki Nichols Gamble said.
Salvi was the third man to be convicted of murdering abortion clinic workers. Paul Hill awaits execution for killing a doctor and a bodyguard in 1994 outside a clinic in Pensacola, Fla. Earlier that year, Michael Griffin was sentenced to life in prison for killing a doctor outside another Pensacola clinic.
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