DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: In our "CNN 20" segment, a look back at the conviction of Paul Hill.</s>ANNOUNCER: Bringing you the world for 20 years, this is CNN.</s>LINDEN SOLES, CNN ANCHOR: He presented no witnesses and asked no questions of those who did take the stand. It took a Florida jury just minutes to respond. Now, as CNN's Sean Callebs explains, the murder case involving antiabortion activist Paul Hill enters a new phase.</s>SEAN CALLEBS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It took the jury less than an hour to reach the verdicts in the killings of a doctor and his escort outside a Florida abortion clinic. He felt he was saving lives by killing physician that performed abortion.</s>CALLEBS: Paul Hill, for his part, his defense solely rested on the fact that he thought that he was saving lives by killing a physician who performed abortions, and that's what he wanted to use as his defense.</s>CALLEBS: The most dramatic testimony came from June Barrett. She was wounded in the attack that killed her husband and Dr. John Bayard Britton.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And I said, Doc, are you OK? No answer again. And then I opened my eyes a little wider and kind of turned my head. I said, no, he's not OK.</s>CALLEBS: The judge listened to what he had to say, said, I'm sorry, that is not an acceptable defense. The jury came back in just a matter of minutes and convicted him of murder.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Count one, guilty of first-degree murder of Dr. John Bayard Britton, as charged in the indictment, with a firearm.</s>CALLEBS: And then they went back in for the penalty phase and said -- ruled that he would be put to death for his crimes. Paul Hill is still being held, presumably, on death row in Florida. He is still there and the appeals process is moving along.
CNN 20: Paul Hill is Convicted of Murder, November 2, 1994