Showing posts with label serial killer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label serial killer. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Why? stay of execution for white supremacist serial killer

Federal judge grants stay of execution for white supremacist serial killer

A federal judge in Missouri has given a stay of execution Tuesday to white supremacist serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin just hours before his scheduled death. Why?????

Franklin, 63, was scheduled to die at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday for killing Gerald Gordon, 42, 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.

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