US court OKs Larry Flynt's push for Missouri execution info
Source: Associated Press
US court OKs Larry Flynt's push for Missouri execution info
By JIM SUHR, Associated Press | April 7, 2015 | Updated: April 7, 2015 2:52pm
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A federal appeals court on Tuesday signed off on allowing porn publisher Larry Flynt to join a lawsuit seeking to force Missouri to disclose more details of its execution methods, reversing a lower court's ruling that the Hustler magazine founder lacked standing to intervene.
A three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis found that a federal district judge applied the incorrect legal standard in ruling that Flynt's "generalized interest" in the lawsuit, originally filed by death row inmates, did not justify his being part of the case.
Flynt, 72, opposes capital punishment and through the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri sought to join the case shortly before the November 2013 execution in Missouri of Joseph Paul Franklin for a 1977 sniper attack that killed a 42-year-old father of three at a St. Louis-area synagogue.
Franklin was a white supremacist who admitted to shooting Flynt in a 1978 attack in Georgia that left Flynt paralyzed from the waist down. Franklin was convicted of eight murders in Wisconsin, Ohio, Utah, Tennessee and Missouri but was never charged in Flynt's shooting.
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