Gospel singer Gene Collett has released a song he wrote about accused abortion clinic bomber Eric Rudolph to 1,270 gospel and country radio stations, the Asheville Citizen-Times reports (Ostendorff, Asheville Citizen-Times, 8/25). Rudolph, who was the final major figure sought by federal authorities for violence committed against abortion providers, was captured in May in North Carolina after a five-year search. He was wanted for allegedly bombing an Atlanta-area abortion clinic in 1997 and a Birmingham, Ala., clinic in 1998. In addition to the clinic bombings, Rudolph has also been indicted in relation to the 1997 bombing of an Atlanta gay and lesbian nightclub that injured five people and the 1996 Olympic Park bombing, which killed one person and injured 111 others. Rudolph's criminal trial has been delayed indefinitely because attorneys on both sides say that they need more time to prepare for what could be a death penalty case. Rudolph earlier this month was ordered to pay $115 million in civil damages to Emily Lyons, who was injured in the bombing of the Birmingham clinic where she worked as a nurse (Kaiser Daily Reproductive Health Report, 8/15). Collett said that his song -- titled "The Ballade of Eric Robert Rudolph" -- is not intended to glorify Rudolph's actions. He said the song stemmed from a "message from God" that he received while praying on June 29 about songs for his new album, according to the Citizen-Times. Collett sings, "Right or wrong in what he's done, his race is over, now only in his mind are the sweet fields of clover. Rudolph has run, and where he has trod, now he faces Caesar but his final judge is God." At least one radio station in Western North Carolina is interested in playing the song. "We need to jump on that big time," Vann Campbell of WRKR 1320 in Murphy, N.C. -- the town in which Rudolph was arrested -- said, adding, "His song is really neutral. It's not overly judgmental and it doesn't make (Rudolph) out to be a hero" (Asheville Citizen-Times, 8/25).