Joseph Franklin, white supremacist serial killer, executed!

[karl]

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.


Full story here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25016217

[Jess]

I normally don't support the death penalty, but good riddance that he's been executed. We don't need people such as him in our world.

[LouBerry]

I hate people like him, and I am not sad to hear of his death, but I am saddened that he is being shown in that light. People did things like that every day in the South. He grew up being taught to kick colored children out of his way, and to act savagely towards them. He wasn't evil, he was ignorant.

[CosmicNoodle]

Good riddance to him, one less nutter in the world. I usually oppose the death penalty but he deserve nothing less.