Sentencing hearings are the new black

The good thing about them is that the victims can say what they want and get their feelings off their chest. But then the perpetrators - BTK, or Eric Rudolph -- can answer back:

Rudolph, who was allowed to speak, lashed out at abortion and the women's clinic that performs them.

"What they did was participate in the murder of 50 children a week," he said. "Abortion is murder, and because it is murder I believe deadly force is needed to stop it."

"Children are disposed of at will," he said in a long speech against abortion. "The
state is no longer the protector of the innocence."

But Lyons, when she spoke earlier, said Rudolph was nothing but a coward.

"When it was your turn to face death you weren't so brave again," Lyons told the federal courtroom.

"You want to see a monster, all you have to do is look in the mirror," she said.

The "monster in the mirror" was sentenced to life in prison.