And if he was willing to give his life, why did he plead Not Guilty?
I'm not Roeder so I don't know what he had in mind, maybe there were others he still wanted to take out before he got caught or killed, as for the not guilty verdict that's an easy one, he obviously felt like he was defending lives from being destroyed so in that's sense it would be justifiable homicide and not cold-blooded murder as charged.
Why that is an interesting view.
So Roeder would have also been justified in killing anyone in that church who worked as a pharmacist and dispensed morning after pills to women and would have also been justified in murdering every woman in that church who had an IUD in their uterus?