Sue Hartigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SACRAMENTO, Calif., May 4 (UPI) _ Theodore Kaczynski gets perhaps his last chance today to explain in public why he became the notorious UNABOMber. Then he will be sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison without release or legal appeal. The 55-year-old former math professor, who went to Evergreen Park High School in Illinois, accepted the terms in January to avoid the death penalty. In return, he pleaded guilty to 13 charges involving five of the 16 serial bombings, three of them fatal. Justice Department spokeswoman Leesa Brown says U.S. District Judge Garland Burrell Jr. will give victims the opportunity to speak at today's formal sentencing proceeding in Sacramento, Calif. Kaczynski also will be allowed to speak, either directly or through his lawyers. His own published ``manifesto'' and writings seized from his Montana cabin in April 1996 offer a conflicting picture of the hermit. They portray him as an anarchist dedicated to attacking university researchers, airlines and other symbols of industrial society. But other writings show Kaczynski was motivated mainly by personal revenge against people whose ideas, lifestyles or jobs he hated beginning while he was a graduate student in 1966. The Harvard University product wrote before he took a teaching post at the University of California, Berkeley: ``I will kill, but I will make at least some effort to avoid detection, so that I can kill again.'' Prosecutors have asked the judge to recommend incarceration in a maximum security prison, with the exact site to be determined by the U. S. Bureau of Prisons within the next few weeks. -- Two rules in life: 1. Don't tell people everything you know. 2. Subscribe/Unsubscribe, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the body of the message enter: subscribe/unsubscribe law-issues
