Eric rudolph pled guilty in 2005 to the deadly 1996 atlanta olympics park bombing as well as to earlier bombing incidents around the atlanta area. why was he spared the death penalty?

The state of Massachusetts, which has Boston as its capital, has not included the death penalty in its legal system since 1984. However, since this is an act of terrorism using a weapon of mass destruction, the case has risen to the of federal justice and capital punishment could be applied.

However, he made an agreement with the court, pleaded guilty to all charges and delivered 250 pounds of dynamite he had hidden. He got rid of the death penalty but was sentenced to two life imprisonment, without parole.

He is serving his sentence at the Penitentiary, Administrative Maximum Facility (ADX).

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gibbons v. ogden, (1824), was a landmark decision in which the supreme court of the united states held that the power to regulate interstate commerce, granted to congress by the commerce clause of the united states constitution, encompassed the power to regulate navigation.