US anti-abortionist charged
An anti-abortion extremist is facing a new murder charge, almost a month after he admitted in a jail interview that he killed a doctor who provided terminations.
James Kopp, 47, who is already charged with intentional second-degree murder, denied the new charge of reckless murder with depraved indifference to human life. If convicted, he could get 25 years to life in prison.
Kopp, captured in France after nearly three years on the run, told the Buffalo News newspaper he carried out the October 1998 sniper attack that killed Dr Barnett Slepian, 52, in New York suburb Amherst.
He said he meant only to wound the doctor, but “the bullet took a crazy ricochet”.
