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Eugene

(61,939 posts) Tue Nov 19, 2013, 08:03 PM Nov 2013

Judge grants Missouri convicted killer (Joseph Paul Franklin) grant stay of execution

Source: Reuters

Tue Nov 19, 2013 6:26pm EST

(Reuters) - A federal judge on Tuesday granted an avowed white supremacist serial killer a stay of execution hours before he was scheduled to be put to death, allowing him time to challenge Missouri's new lethal drug protocol.

Joseph Paul Franklin, 63, was convicted and sentenced to death for killing one man and wounding two others outside a St. Louis-area synagogue in 1977. He was scheduled to be executed early Wednesday morning at a Missouri prison.

Franklin has been linked to the deaths of at least 18 other people and was convicted of killing eight in the late 1970s and 1980s in racially motivated attacks around the country.

(Reporting by David Bailey and Carey Gillam; Editing by Paul Thomasch)

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/19/us-usa-execution-missouri-idUSBRE9AI1DI20131119

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Judge grants Missouri convicted killer (Joseph Paul Franklin) grant stay of execution (Original Post) Eugene Nov 2013 OP

Larry Flint hog Nov 2013 #1

Yes, he is. Eugene Nov 2013 #2

I oppose the death penalty, but I won't cry to see this bas-turd gone from this earth. lastlib Nov 2013 #3

k&r DP is ALWAYS wrong. idwiyo Nov 2013 #4

Missouri executes serial killer after U.S. Supreme Court clears way Eugene Nov 2013 #5

hog

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1. Larry Flint

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Tue Nov 19, 2013, 08:39 PM

Nov 2013

Is this the man who shot and paralyzed Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flint?

Eugene

(61,939 posts)

2. Yes, he is.

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Tue Nov 19, 2013, 08:43 PM

Nov 2013

Larry Flynt Does Not Want His Shooter Executed (ABC News)

lastlib

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3. I oppose the death penalty, but I won't cry to see this bas-turd gone from this earth.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Tue Nov 19, 2013, 10:40 PM

Nov 2013

It sukks that he still takes in oxygen.

idwiyo

(5,113 posts)

4. k&r DP is ALWAYS wrong.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Tue Nov 19, 2013, 10:58 PM

Nov 2013

Eugene

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5. Missouri executes serial killer after U.S. Supreme Court clears way

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Wed Nov 20, 2013, 09:45 AM

Nov 2013

Source: Reuters

Missouri executes serial killer after U.S. Supreme Court clears way

Wed Nov 20, 2013 8:42am EST

(Reuters) - Missouri serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin was executed by lethal injection early Wednesday after the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for him to be put to death, a corrections spokesman said.

Franklin, 63, was pronounced dead at 6:17 a.m. CST (1217 GMT) at the Missouri Eastern Correctional Center in Bonne Terre, said Mike O'Connell, a spokesman for the Missouri Department of Public Safety.

The U.S. Supreme Court had cleared the way earlier on Wednesday for the execution to move forward, lifting two final stays that would have allowed Franklin to challenge Missouri's new lethal drug protocol and his claim that he was too mentally incompetent to be executed.

Franklin, an avowed white supremacist, was convicted and sentenced to death for killing Gerald Gordon, 42, and wounding two other men in 1977. But he was also linked to the deaths of at least 18 other people.

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