"Like other small men who act as you have acted, you have a Napoleonic complex and need to compensate for what you lack", said John Hawthorne, whose wife died in the Olympics blasts in Atlanta. "Little person, big bomb. But you are still a small man."
Rudolph, 38, clean-shaven and gaunt, apologised for the Olympics blasts, saying he "would do anything to take that night back".
The sentence on Monday brings a close to a case that began with the Olympics bombing and included an exhaustive five-year manhunt for Rudolph, who was captured in North Carolina scavenging for food from a trash container. He pleaded guilty earlier in 2005 and was sentenced in July to life for the 1998 bombing of a women's clinic in Alabama that killed a police officer and maimed a nurse.
Monday's hearing covered the Olympics blast, a bombing at a gay nightclub in Atlanta and another at an abortion clinic in the city in 1997. One woman was killed and more than 100 people were injured by the Olympics bomb.
He had faced a possible death sentence, but reached a plea deal with prosecutors in exchange for him revealing the location of more than 250 pounds of stolen dynamite he had buried in North Carolina.
