Paul Jennings Hill (February 6, 1954 – September 3, 2003) was an American minister, religious extremist, and anti-abortion terrorist who murdered physician John Britton and Britton's bodyguard, retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel James Barrett, in 1994.

At the age of 17, Hill was charged with the assault of his father when his parents attempted to get him treatment for his drug problem.

[3] Hill later enrolled in Belhaven University, where he met his future wife, Karen Demuth, with whom he had three children.

Hill graduated from Reformed Theological Seminary, where he studied under Greg Bahnsen, a founder of the right-wing Christian Reconstructionist movement.

[6][7] Prior to his excommunication, Hill looked towards other means to support his family, having seen his eight years in ministry as "fruitless".

After moving to Pensacola, Florida, he purchased a franchise for a mobile business that performed cleaning, trim repair, touch-up paint and pinstripe services for new and used car dealerships.

This offered him flexible work hours in order to pursue his anti-abortion protest activities.

[12] Hill was close friends with Spitz both before and after he killed John Britton and James H. Barrett.

The letters rejected and refuted Hill's theological arguments, and concluded that, "...the public will regard your dual assassination as the act of a condemned man outside of God's church and acting on his own in defiance of Bible-revealed law and therefore also God's moral law.

In a statement made before his execution, Hill's views on the murders remained unchanged; he said that he felt no remorse for his actions, and that he expected "a great reward in Heaven".