A man sentenced to life imprisonment for fatal bombings at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and an Alabama abortion clinic will not get a chance at a new sentence, an appeals court ruled Monday.

A three-judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled that Eric Robert Rudolph remains bound to the terms of his 2005 plea agreement in which he accepted multiple life sentences to escape the death penalty.

Britt Grant, Judge Britt Grant, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. (Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM)