American Shrapnel Part 8: The trial and fate of Olympic bomber, Eric Robert Rudolph

American Shrapnel Part 8: The trial and fate of Olympic bomber, Eric Robert Rudolph

After five years on the lam, Eric Rudolph was captured. Prosecutors in Georgia and Alabama jockeyed to have the first crack at taking him to trial, convicting him and, as they planned, sentencing him to death. It was decided that Birmingham had better evidence, and a reliable witness in Jermaine Hughes. Jurors had been assembled and questioned. But Rudolph had one bargaining chip: the location of 200 pounds of stolen dynamite. On the eve of his …