After several delays, Joseph Paul Franklin was executed for the 1977 murder of Gerald Gordon outside a Synagogue in St. Louis. He was blamed for the deaths of 22 people b/w 1977 and 1980 in an attempt to start a race war.. He is also responsible for the attempted assassinations Hustler Magazine publisher Larry Flynt in 1978 and civil rights leader Vernon Jordan in 1980.
Flynt actually tried for clemency for Franklin but found out today, he doesn't have pull everywhere. Franklin was never arrested or charged in the shooting that ultimately left Flynt paralyzed and in a wheelchair for life. I actually don't have much to write on this case because there is a much better report done on it by Beth Karas of wildabouttrial.com.
You can find that interview here. She humanized him so well with this interview and I think it was because she had interviewed him so long ago immediately after the trial. This is an interview you MUST go listen to. I came out with a different perspective on someone that was a self proclaimed white supremacist etc. I only wish they had done more. This interview was done 8 days ago.
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