Kansas jury says Jewish center killer should be executed

[Little Tich]

Source: Yahoo! News / Reuters

OLATHE, Kan. (Reuters) - A Kansas jury recommended on Tuesday that a white supremacist be sentenced to death for shooting and killing three people, including a boy, outside two Jewish centers last year.

Frazier Glenn Cross, 74, a former senior member of the Ku Klux Klan who has been representing himself in court, turned towards the jury after the verdict was read and said with a smile: "Thank you."

He was found guilty last month of killing Reat Underwood, 14, and his grandfather, William Corporon, 69, outside the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City, and Terri LaManno, 53, outside a Jewish retirement home, both in Overland Park, Kansas. The jury also convicted Cross of three counts of attempted murder for shooting at three other people.

Cross admitted during the trial that he committed the killings and said he had wanted to kill as many Jews as he could. None of those killed were Jewish.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/killer-three-kansas-jewish-centers-sentenced-death-190653830.html

[Archae]

1. Like I said, that's what the SOB wants.

Now he becomes yet another "martyr" to the "cause."

[7962]

2. So he cant spread his bile in prison. Do it next week, no doubt he's guilty. nt

[Lunabell]

3. I am a rare liberal...

who is not anti death penalty. I am not pro either, but I think some people don't have the right to breath anymore due to their vile acts. It is an opinion after many years of thought and private debate. Go ahead and try to change my mind. Won't work.

[bonniebgood]

4. He won't get the death penalty becasue this country dont

kill mentally ill white men especially one that belongs to racist hate terrorist groups. Racist Hate is a mental illness says Albert Eintstein.
If there were oil profits to be made, no doubt white racist hate groups in the USA would be designated and treated as Terrorist. just as the brown people on the other side of the world. There is a 'war' on everything except 'hate'.
Notice the article say he was "A FORMER" member of the KKK?

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2007/04/albert-einstein-civil-rights-activist/

[geek tragedy]

5. we have a second, all those opposed raise your hands, motion carries nt

[leftyladyfrommo]

6. He said he regretted that he hadn't killed more people.

He was an x-green beret and master sergeant. And he is completely crazy.

I don't think Kansas has executed anyone in 50 years. I guess he only has about 5 years to live so he probably will just die in prison.

I just hope he spends his last time in solitary confinement.

I don't believe in the death penalty myself but there are some people who make me question my stand on that and he is one of them.

[Chan790]

7. 1965 was the last time the state of KS executed someone...so exactly 50 years.

The last person executed in Kansas was serial killer George York, hung just minutes after the execution of his partner in crime James Latham. York and Latham were US Army deserters who went on a cross-country murder spree following their desertion because they disliked having to serve in a mixed unit with black soldiers.

It's noteworthy actually for two reasons:

1.) There was a race to the gallows between two pairs of mass murderers, York and Latham losing that race to Richard Hickock and Perry Smith, the murderers of the Clutter family (and suspected subsequent rapists and murderers of Cliff and Christine Walker and their two young children in Osprey, FL) as immortalized in In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. Both York and Latham get passing mention in In Cold Blood...Capote found their presence uncomfortable, his portrayals of them project them as being flippant, snide, and lacking any degree of remorse for their crimes. Like Cross, they regretted not being more effective as killers.

2.) The United States Disciplinary Barracks (and the military Death Row) is located at Fort Leavenworth in KS. There are 6 inmates currently on death row in Leavenworth, the most recent Maj. Nidal Hasan sentenced to death in 2013. It is likely however that if any of the six death row inmates were ever to be executed, they would be first transferred from the DB to the Federal Penitentiary System and moved to the Federal Death Row facility in Terre Haute, IN which is better equipped to perform executions.

Due to a number of legal complications, it's unlikely that the state of KS will ever execute another death row inmate...there are 9 prisoners currently on death row.