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BBC November 21, 2013
A US white supremacist who targeted black and Jewish people in a nationwide killing spree has been put to death in the US state of Missouri.
Joseph Franklin was executed for shooting dead a man outside a synagogue in the city of St Louis in 1977. The 63-year-old was convicted of seven other racially motivated murders. He claimed to have committed 20 in total. His execution came after the US Supreme Court upheld an appeal court’s decision to lift a stay of execution. In 1978 Franklin shot Hustler publisher Larry Flynt, leaving him partially paralysed, after seeing a picture of a mixed-race couple in one of his magazines. But Mr Flynt – who opposes the death penalty – had sued to prevent Franklin’s execution. Racist views ‘renounced’ Franklin declined to make a final statement and was pronounced dead at 6:17 local time (12:17 GMT) on Wednesday.
An Associated Press news agency journalist said that Franklin swallowed hard as 5g of pentobarbital were administered. It took him 10 minutes to be pronounced dead.
In an interview with the St Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper published on Monday, Franklin said he had renounced his racist views. He said his motivation had been “illogical” and was partly a consequence of an abusive upbringing. He said he had interacted with black people in prison, adding: “I saw they were people just like us.” Franklin, who defence lawyers said was a paranoid schizophrenic, bombed a synagogue in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in July 1977. No-one was injured in that attack. He committed his first murder shortly after arriving in St Louis later that year, picking out a synagogue from the phone book. Franklin opened fire on the place of worship as guests were leaving a bar mitzvah on 8 October 1977, killing Gerald Gordon, 42, and wounding two others. Read More
