Serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin is getting support from an unlikely source: Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt, who was paralyzed by a bullet apparently fired by Franklin 35 years ago.
Franklin is set for execution Nov. 20 in Missouri for a 1977 murder. But he's claimed responsibility for killing more than 20 people. He admitted shooting Flynt in 1978 but was never charged.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a court motion Saturday on Flynt's behalf, arguing that Missouri's execution process is too secretive and demanding more information be made public.
Flynt recently wrote a column in the Hollywood Reporter, saying execution was vengeance, not justice.
Franklin has been convicted in five murders. He was given the death penalty for killing Gerald Gordon outside a St. Louis-area synagogue in 1977.
I can remember exactly where I was on that day Larry Flynt was shot. I cannot say I recall the exact date but I do remember the exposure given to the shooting by the media when the magazine Hustler was so popular even with me.
Following the story for a while I soon got tired of the media`s covering up the fact that Joseph Paul Franklin was deeply invovled with Nazi racists of the time.
Execution Date Set for Infamous Racist Serial Killer
William Pierce, founder of neo-Nazi National Alliance comes to mind and in this link I can
now understand how deep Joseph Paul Franklin`s racism ran. Which is why I have always been obsessed in learning how past trends of racism is being exposed and fought, sending
clear messages that it must end.
At the bottom of this article, the name William Pierce gives you a glimpse of what I mean.
After 33 years in prison, Joseph Paul Franklin, one of the most notorious and prolific racist serial killers of modern times, now has a date with the executioner.
The Missouri State Supreme Court yesterday ordered that Franklin be executed by lethal injection on Nov. 20, almost 36 years after he murdered Gerald Gordon outside a synagogue following an Oct. 8, 1977, bar mitzvah.
Franklin, 63, is to be executed for the Gordon killing. But he has been convicted of a total of eight racially motivated murders in Ohio, Tennessee, Utah, Wisconsin and Missouri between 1977 and 1980, and confessed to or was implicated in 13 additional racial murders. He also confessed to the 1978 attempted murder of Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt and his lawyer, saying he was infuriated by an interracial porn shoot in Flynt’s publication, but was never tried in that case. He was acquitted of the 1980 attempted murder of Urban League President Vernon Jordan Jr., a black civil rights activist.
Franklin has said he was attempting to start a race war by targeting victims who were Jewish, African-American or involved in interracial romantic relationships. Although he didn’t use the term, his crimes were what other racists would come to call acts of Phineas Priests, based on a Bible story describing Phineas’ killing of a man and a woman of different tribes who were having sex. Many white supremacists see this story as proof that God approves of murdering “race-mixers.”
Pierce, who for many years until his 2002 death was America’s most important neo-Nazi leader, admired Franklin greatly, and said as much in the first pages of Hunter: “Dedicated to Joseph Paul Franklin, the Lone Hunter, who saw his duty as a White man and did what a responsible son of his race must do, to the best of his ability and without regard for the personal consequences.”
What is posted here is but a tease. Read the complete article written by the Southern Poverty Law Center at the link.