Paul Jennings Hill

Rev. Paul Jennings Hill (February 6, 1954 – September 3, 2003), was an excommunicated Presbyterian minister and anti-abortion activist connected to the Army of God, who was convicted of the murders of Dr. John Britton and his armed escort James Barrett outside a Pensacola, Florida abortion clinic on July 29, 1994. In addition to the two murders, Hill wounded June Barrett, the wife of [James Barrett. Sentenced to the death penalty under Florida law, Hill died by lethal injection, making him the first person to be executed in the U.S. for killing a physician who provided abortions.