John C. Salvi III, who was convicted of killing two people in a shooting spree on two abortion clinics in 1994, killed himself in prison.
Guards found his body Friday morning under his bed with a plastic garbage bag tied around his head, prison superintendent Ronald Duval said.
The state medical examiner said the death appeared to be a suicide.
His attorneys said he attempted suicide twice before in prison.
Mr. Salvi was sentenced to life in prison without parole last year by Judge Dortch-Okara after a jury rejected his lawyers' arguments that he was insane.
Lee Ann Nichols, 38, and Shannon Lowney, 25, were killed and five others wounded by Mr. Salvi in the Dec. 30, 1994, attacks at two Brookline clinics.
"This is what you get! You should pray the rosary!" Salvi screamed as he shot Nichols, according to witnesses.
Defense lawyers at the five-week trial said their client was a paranoid schizophrenic who envisioned himself a warrior fighting an anti-Catholic conspiracy led by the Mafia, Freemasons and the Ku Klux Klan.
Prosecutors said that he practiced shooting the day before the killings, stocked up on hollow point bullets, and cut his hair after the attack to disguise his appearance.
Prior to his trial, Salvi had issued a statement saying he wanted the death penalty if convicted.
Nichols, the mother of Lee Ann Nichols, said that Salvi was "a bad boy who grew up to be a bad man."
John C. Salvi III, who was convicted of killing two people in a shooting spree on two abortion clinics in 1994, killed himself in prison.
Guards found his body Friday morning under his bed with a plastic garbage bag tied around his head, prison superintendent Ronald Duval said.
The state medical examiner said the death appeared to be a suicide.
Mr. Salvi was sentenced to life in prison without parole last year by Judge Dortch-Okara after a jury rejected his lawyers' arguments that he was insane.
Lee Ann Nichols, 38, and Shannon Lowney, 25, were killed and five others wounded by Mr. Salvi in the Dec. 30, 1994, attacks at two Brookline clinics.
"This is what you get! You should pray the rosary!" Salvi screamed as he shot Nichols, according to witnesses.
His attorneys said he attempted suicide twice before in prison.
Defense lawyers at the five-week trial said their client was a paranoid schizophrenic who envisioned himself a warrior fighting an anti-Catholic conspiracy led by the Mafia, Freemasons and the Ku Klux Klan.
Prosecutors said that he practiced shooting the day before the killings, stocked up on hollow point bullets, and cut his hair after the attack to disguise his appearance.
Prior to his trial, Salvi had issued a statement saying he wanted the death penalty if convicted.
Nichols, the mother of Lee Ann Nichols, said that Salvi was "a bad boy who grew up to be a bad man."
John C. Salvi III, who was convicted of killing two people in a shooting spree on two abortion clinics in 1994, killed himself in prison.
Mr. Salvi was sentenced to life in prison without parole last year by Judge Dortch-Okara after a jury rejected his lawyers' arguments that he was insane.
Lee Ann Nichols, 38, and Shannon Lowney, 25, were killed and five others wounded by Mr. Salvi in the Dec. 30, 1994, attacks at two Brookline clinics.
Guards found his body Friday morning under his bed with a plastic garbage bag tied around his head, prison superintendent Ronald Duval said. The state medical examiner said the death appeared to be a suicide.
"This is what you get! You should pray the rosary!" Salvi screamed as he shot Nichols, according to witnesses.
His attorneys said he attempted suicide twice before in prison.
Defense lawyers at the five-week trial said their client was a paranoid schizophrenic who envisioned himself a warrior fighting an anti-Catholic conspiracy led by the Mafia, Freemasons and the Ku Klux Klan.
Prosecutors said that he practiced shooting the day before the killings, stocked up on hollow point bullets, and cut his hair after the attack to disguise his appearance.
Prior to his trial, Salvi had issued a statement saying he wanted the death penalty if convicted.
Nichols, the mother of Lee Ann Nichols, said that Salvi was "a bad boy who grew up to be a bad man."