Abortion Clinic Bomber Gets Life

Eric Rudolph Delivers Fiery Statement As Victims Confront Him Court

(CBS/AP) 
“When it was your turn to face death you weren't so brave again,” Lyons said in a forceful voice, occasionally looking across the aisle at Rudolph. “You want to see a monster, all you have to do is look in the mirror.”

The bombing also killed police officer Robert “Sande” Sanderson outside the New Woman All Women clinic. Sanderson's widow, speaking with Rudolph to her back, told the court she will “never forget the look on my son's face when I told him Sande was gone.”

“I want to tell you there is no punishment in my opinion great enough for Eric Rudolph. When Eric Rudolph leaves this earth and has to face final judgment, I'm going to leave the final judgment in God's hand,” she said.

Seated at the defense table, Rudolph nodded in agreement.

Lyons was wounded by flying nails and other shrapnel. She has undergone 21 operations, lost her left eye and has scars on her arms and legs. She is no longer able to work.

But she said Rudolph failed to deter her or the work of the women's clinic.

“I faced five pounds of dynamite and hundreds of nails yet I survived,” she said. “Do I look afraid? You damaged my body, but you did not create the fear you sought.”

Rudolph faces sentencing Aug. 22 in Atlanta for the Olympic bombing, which killed one woman and injured more than 100 other people, and for 1997 bombings at an abortion clinic and a gay bar in Atlanta.

"I am sure the feds hope that, over time, in his cell, Rudolph will soften a bit and perhaps begin to tell more about how he committed his crimes and how he evaded the manhunt over all those years," reports Cohen. "I'm sure the FBI is salivating over the prospect of getting into Rudolph's mind and understanding how it worked back then."