Options low for condemned white supremacist killer

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Options low for condemned white supremacist killer

By JIM SALTER, Associated Press | November 19, 2013 | Updated: November 19, 2013 2:19am

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Options for a white supremacist serial killer set to die in Missouri were running out as the state moved toward its first execution in nearly three years.

Joseph Paul Franklin, 63, is scheduled to die at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday for killing 42-year-old Gerald Gordon in a sniper attack outside a suburban St. Louis synagogue in 1977. It was one of as many as 20 killings committed by Franklin, who targeted blacks and Jews in a cross-country killing spree from 1977 to 1980. He was convicted of seven other murders but the Missouri case was the only one resulting in a death sentence.

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon on Monday refused to halt the execution, denying Franklin's clemency request and calling his crime in Missouri a "cowardly and calculated shooting."

The Missouri crime "was only one of many senseless acts of extreme violence that Franklin, motivated by racial and religious intolerance, committed against numerous victims across the country — from Tennessee and Ohio to Utah and Wisconsin," Nixon said in a statement.


Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Options-low-for-condemned-white-supremacist-killer-4992657.php

[Botany]

1. If ever a person needs to die it is this man

http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/18/justice/death-row-interview-joseph-paul-franklin/

[marble falls]

2. The death penalty is wrong. Even for murdering racists.

[CanonRay]

3. Every time I start to be against the death penalty

I hear about an asshole like this. I can never quite get there.

[crim son]

6. Just this minute

I was thinking the same thing. As long as we pay to keep monsters like yhis housed and fed, I can't help but think we are all better off with them gone. Having said that, there has to be a better way... where they stay locked up forever and earn their keep or starve.

[CanonRay]

8. We're in about the same place with this.

There's got to be a better way...damned if I know what it is.

[geek tragedy]

4. Meh. Oppose the DP on policy grounds, but won't be attending a candle light vigil

for this hellspawn.

[AllyCat]

5. I'm with Larry Flynt on this one. If HE can protest this man's death

I can hope for a stay of execution and a life behind bars for this creep. He is a horrible man, but I do not believe putting him to death does anything except mobilize the hate groups even more. He becomes their martyr. And we still don't get all those innocent people back.

[christx30]

7. Try as I might,

I can't find a thread about this guy on the freeper site. They don't like to post bad news, I guess. And one of their own about to be executed would be considered bad news.