(#1 Thread) Phone Call From Joseph Paul Franklin (12 Sep 13)

[Rounder]

(Courtesy photo) Karma Ingersoll, left, and Terry Jackson-Mitchell where with David Martin and Ted Fields when serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin gunned the two men down as they were leaving Liberty Park on Aug. 20, 1980.


Federal judge stays Joseph Paul Franklin’s execution

By Jim Salter | The Associated Press

First Published 8 hours ago • Updated 27 minutes ago

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

U.S. District Court Judge Nanette Laughrey ruled late Tuesday afternoon that a lawsuit filed by Franklin and 20 other death-row inmates challenging Missouri’s execution protocol must first be resolved.

[Cora McGuire]

Neo Nazi serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin given last minute stay of execution in row over injection drug

Joseph Paul Franklin admitted to killing 22 people across multiple states between 1977 and 1980

He was on Missouri death row for the 1977 killing of a Jewish man outside a St. Louis synagogue

His lawyers argued pentobarbital was inhumane

Mr Franklin also shot Hustler publisher Larry Flynt in 1978 in Georgia

By JAMES NYE, RYAN GORMAN and ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 23:15 EST, 19 November 2013 | UPDATED: 03:58 EST, 20 November 2013

Serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin was granted a stay of execution Tuesday only hours before he was set to die of lethal injection in a Missouri jail.
Mr Franklin, 63, and his legal team were able to successfully argue the state was at risk of violating the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment by using pentobarbital as an execution drug.
The drug is slowly starting to replace previously used lethal injection cocktails because drug manufacturers will no longer provide them to US prisons.

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[George Witzgall]

Unfuckingbelievable.

[Bev]

So it appears that the state of Missouri has more decency than JPF does. He didn't grant that little girl a stay, or even the chance to appeal against his decision on the grounds it was "inhumane".

[SwillisGumpf]

Originally Posted by Bev

So it appears that the state of Missouri has more decency than JPF does. He didn't grant that little girl a stay, or even the chance to appeal against his decision on the grounds it was "inhumane".

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Wasn't the state of Missouri. Was a female federal judge.

Which goes to show that you "opinions" have little to do with facts.

[Bev]

Originally Posted by SwillisGumpf

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Wasn't the state of Missouri. Was a female federal judge.

Which goes to show that you "opinions" have little to do with facts.

I'm not in the US so don't know who employs who and, if I'm honest, don't really care.

I thought district court judges worked for the state.

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On Wednesday morning, the U.S. Supreme Court denied an execution stay for Joseph Paul Franklin. The state carried out the execution Wednesday morning. Franklin was pronounced dead at 6:17 a.m.

*This story has been updated with the state's appeal of a federal judge's stay of execution. The story is developing.


Even among the hard-core criminals on Missouri's death row, Joseph Paul Franklin is perhaps the most notorious, a cunning killer who picked out victims at random, using marksman skills to murder and maim from a hidden spot in a vacant building, a grassy field and a highway overpass. (This story is available to Missourian digital members.)




ST. LOUIS — Serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin's fate was in limbo early Wednesday after a federal judge in Missouri on Tuesday granted a stay of execution, citing concerns over the state's new execution method.

U.S. District Court Judge Nanette Laughrey ruled that a lawsuit filed by Franklin and 20 other death-row inmates challenging Missouri's execution protocol must be resolved before he is put to death. Franklin's execution had been scheduled for 12:01 a.m.

The state appealed Laughrey's ruling to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis on Tuesday night, though it wasn't clear how quickly that court would rule.

A second lower court federal judge, weighing a separate defense appeal contesting Franklin's competency to be executed based on his mental illness, also granted a stay and said the issue needs "a meaningful review."

If a federal appeals court or the U.S. Supreme Court strikes Laughrey's ruling, the execution can go forward. Franklin's attorney, Jennifer Herndon, said the execution warrant allows it to be carried out anytime Wednesday.

The 14-page ruling criticizes the timing of the state's changes to how it administers capital punishment, specifically its plan to use for the first time ever a single drug, pentobarbital, made for the first time in Missouri by a compounding pharmacy.

Laughrey wrote that the Missouri Department of Corrections "has not provided any information about the certification, inspection history, infraction history, or other aspects of the compounding pharmacy or of the person compounding the drug." She noted that the execution protocol, which has changed repeatedly, "has been a frustratingly moving target."

Herndon said Franklin, who has been diagnosed as mentally ill, didn't seem to fully understand the stay.

"He was happy," she said. "I'm not really convinced that he totally understands that he was going to die."

Franklin, 63, was convicted of seven other murders, but the Missouri case was the only one resulting in a death sentence. Franklin also has admitted to shooting and wounding civil rights leader Vernon Jordan and Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt, who has been paralyzed from the waist down since the attack in 1978.

Like other states, Missouri long had used a three-drug execution method. Drugmakers stopped selling those drugs to prisons and corrections departments, so in April 2012 Missouri announced a new one-drug execution protocol using propofol. The state planned to use propofol for an execution last month.

But Gov. Jay Nixon ordered the Missouri Department of Corrections to come up with a new drug after an outcry from the medical profession over planned use of the popular anesthetic in an execution. Most propofol is made in Europe, and the European Union had threatened to limit exports of it.

The Corrections Department turned to pentobarbital made through a compounding pharmacy. Few details have been made public about the compounding pharmacy because state law provides privacy for parties associated with executions.

"Throughout this litigation, the details of the execution protocol have been illusive at best," Laughrey wrote. "It is clear from the procedural history of this case that through no fault of his own, Franklin could not resolve his claims without a stay of his scheduled execution date."

She added: "Franklin has been afforded no time to research the risk of pain associated with the Department's new protocol, the quality of the pentobarbital provided, and the record of the source of the pentobarbital."

Nixon spokesman Scott Holste had no immediate comment about the ruling.

Franklin was in his mid-20s when he began drifting across the country. He bombed a synagogue in Chattanooga, Tenn., in July 1977. No one was hurt, but soon, the killings began.

He arrived in the St. Louis area in October 1977 and picked out the Brith Sholom Kneseth Israel synagogue from the Yellow Pages. He fired five shots at the parking lot in Richmond Heights after a bar mitzvah Oct. 8, 1977. One struck and killed Gerald Gordon, a 42-year-old father of three.

Franklin got away. His killing spree continued another three years.

Several of his victims were interracial couples. He also shot and killed, among others, two black children in Cincinnati, three female hitchhikers and a white 15-year-old prostitute, with whom he was angry because the girl had sex with black men.

He finally stumbled after killing two young black men in Salt Lake City in August 1980. He was arrested a month later in Kentucky, briefly escaped, and was captured for good a month after that in Florida.

Overall, Franklin was convicted of eight murders — two in Madison, Wis., two in Cincinnati, two in Salt Lake City, one in Chattanooga, Tenn., and the one in St. Louis County. Years later in federal prison, Franklin admitted to several crimes, including the St. Louis County killing. He was sentenced to death in 1997.

http://www.columbiamissourian.com/a/168197/update-federal-judge-grants-stay-of-execution-in-missouri-state-appeals/

[Bev]

BONNE TERRE — Joseph Paul Franklin, a white supremacist who targeted blacks and Jews in a cross-country killing spree from 1977 to 1980, was put to death Wednesday in Missouri, the state's first execution in nearly three years.

Franklin, 63, was executed at the state prison in Bonne Terre for killing Gerald Gordon in a sniper shooting at a suburban St. Louis synagogue in 1977. Franklin was convicted of seven other murders and claimed responsibility for up to 20, but the Missouri case was the only one that brought a death sentence.



Mike O'Connell, a spokesman for the Missouri Department of Corrections, said Franklin was pronounced dead at 6:17 a.m.

The execution began more than six hours later than intended, and it took just 10 minutes.

Franklin declined to make a final statement. Wearing black rimmed glasses with long hair tucked behind his ears, he swallowed hard as five grams of pentobarbital were administered. He breathed heavily a couple of times then simply stopped breathing.

Guards closed the curtains to the viewing area while medical personnel confirmed Franklin was dead.

"The cowardly and calculated shootings outside a St. Louis-area synagogue were part of Joseph Paul Franklin's long record of murders and other acts of extreme violence across the country, fueled by religious and racial hate." Gov. Jay Nixon said in a statement read to reporters by George Lombardi, director of the Department of Corrections, after the execution.

Franklin's lawyer had launched three separate appeals: One claiming his life should be spared because he was mentally ill; one claiming faulty jury instruction when he was given the death penalty; and one raising concerns about Missouri's first-ever use of the single drug pentobarbital for the execution.

But his fate was sealed early Wednesday when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a federal appeals court ruling that overturned two stays granted Tuesday evening by district court judges in Missouri.

The rulings lifting the stay were issued without comment.

Franklin, a paranoid schizophrenic, was in his mid-20s when he began drifting across the country. He bombed a synagogue in Chattanooga, Tenn., in July 1977. No one was hurt, but soon, the killings began.

He arrived in the St. Louis area in October 1977 and picked out the Brith Sholom Kneseth Israel synagogue from the Yellow Pages. He fired five shots at the parking lot in Richmond Heights after a bar mitzvah on Oct. 8, 1977. One struck and killed Gerald Gordon, a 42-year-old father of three.

Franklin got away. His killing spree continued another three years.

Several of his victims were interracial couples. He also shot and killed, among others, two black children in Cincinnati, three female hitchhikers and a white 15-year-old prostitute, with whom he was angry because the girl had sex with black men.

He finally stumbled after killing two young black men in Salt Lake City in August 1980. He was arrested a month later in Kentucky, briefly escaped, and was captured for good a month after that in Florida.

Franklin was convicted of eight murders: two in Madison, Wis., two in Cincinnati, two in Salt Lake City, one in Chattanooga, Tenn., and the one in St. Louis County. Years later, in federal prison, Franklin admitted to several crimes, including the St. Louis County killing. He was sentenced to death in 1997.

He also admitted to shooting and wounding civil rights leader Vernon Jordan and Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt, who has been paralyzed from the waist down since the attack in 1978.

In an interview with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Monday, Franklin insisted he no longer hates blacks or Jews. While he was held at St. Louis County Jail, he said he interacted with blacks at the jail, "and I saw they were people just like us."

He has made similar statements to other media but has denied repeated interview requests from The Associated Press. Franklin's attorney Jennifer Herndon said his reasoning exemplified his mental illness: He told her the digits of the AP's St. Louis office phone number added up to what he called an "unlucky number," so he refused to call it.

http://www.columbiamissourian.com/a/168225/missouri-executes-serial-killer-franklin/

[Donnie in Ohio]

During the course of human events, there are times when glory meets the day.

This is such a time.

[Rounder]

Joseph Paul Franklin, hero, is dead.

Joseph Paul Franklin, martyr, is born and will live forever in the hearts and minds of strong, loyal white men, women, and youth.

Hail Joseph Paul Franklin !!!

NOTE: A month or so ago when I told Joseph that some WNs had turned against him because he was saying to the media that he was sorry about his killings, here's what he said, loudly, and angrily:

"What the hell's the matter with them?? What do they expect me to do ?? I'm just saying I'm sorry to the media because it'll help my appeals." (or words to that effect)

Obviously, I didn't feel free to report that statement on this forum while he still had appeals pending. Plus, he asked me not to.

Per Fred Streed's suggestion coupla days ago, I advised Joseph yesterday when he phoned, that if he wanted to help his legacy as a WN hero, he should make a strong pro-white statement when given the chance to make his final words, and after all his appeals were denied. And I suggested statements similar to what Fred suggested. I do not know what his final words were, or if we'll ever know. I'll be speaking with several of the witnesses soon, and I'll ask them if they know.

However, he did say to me later on, that he was sorry he killed the 15-year old girl. He said that to me, twice. And he was not lying about being a christian.

Now damn it, believe what I said above. You all know I do not lie, and I've been posting here for almost 10 years.

[Bev]

All the news stories are going on about the pornography publisher. Not one I've seen so far has mentioned the 15 year old girl that he lived with and then killed. May she now RIP.

[Donnie in Ohio]

Originally Posted by Bev

All the news stories are going on about the pornography publisher. Not one I've seen so far has mentioned the 15 year old girl that he lived with and then killed. May she now RIP.

He has made similar statements to other media but has denied repeated interview requests from The Associated Press. Franklin's attorney Jennifer Herndon said his reasoning exemplified his mental illness: He told her the digits of the AP's St. Louis office phone number added up to what he called an "unlucky number," so he refused to call it.

That sound like someone rational to you?

[Bev]

Originally Posted by Rounder

Joseph Paul Franklin, hero, is dead.

Joseph Paul Franklin, martyr, is born and will live forever in the hearts and minds of strong, loyal white men, women, and youth.

Hail Joseph Paul Franklin !!!

NOTE: A month ago when I told Joseph that some WNs had turned against him because he was saying to the media that he was sorry about his killings, here's what he said, loudly, and angrily:

"What the hell's the matter with them?? What do they expect me to do ?? I'm just saying I'm sorry to the media because it'll help my appeals." (or words to that effect)

Obviously, I didn't feel free to report that statement on this forum while he still had appeals pending. Plus, he asked me not to.

Per Fred Streed's suggestion coupla days ago, I advised Joseph yesterday when he phoned, that if he wanted to help his legacy as a WN hero, he should make a strong pro-white statement when given the chance to make his final words, and after all his appeals were denied. And I suggested statements similar to what Fred suggested. I do not know what his final words were, or if we'll ever know. I'll be speaking with several of the witnesses soon, and I'll ask them if they know.

Now, damn it, believe what I said in this post. You all know I do not lie, and I've been posting here for almost 10 years.

However, he did say to me later on, that he was sorry he killed the 15-year old girl. He said that to me, twice. And he was not lying about being a christian.

Only just seen your edit.

He did not make a final statement.

Franklin refused his final meal and gave no final statement..

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/20/ju...lin-execution/

Telling you he was just saying that to help his case - did he not realise his phone calls were probably recorded?

Originally Posted by Donnie in Ohio

That sound like someone rational to you?

I'm quite frankly surprised that he didn't get a stay on mental health grounds. I expected that all along, especially after I read somewhere that he had a significant head injury as a child.

[Rounder]

I just phoned and spoke with one of the witnesses. She, and 3 others were with Joseph until 3 this morning before returning to their hotel rooms. All happily celebrated the stay, of course, and had no inkling, there'd be a counter-ruling so quickly by the US Supreme Court. Joe even laughed uncontrollably at a joke one of his friends made.

The reporters also left at 3 or earlier, this morning.

And so, Joseph was all alone when he got the bad news, and all alone when he was executed. They probably woke him from sleep. He was tormented until the end. Who knows what unspeakable tortures were inflicted on him by JOG whores between 3 AM and 6:07 AM, when he died.

I believe Joseph made a pro-white final statement, but I doubt any of the bureaucrats/prison officials will repeat his final statement, truthfully.

Hail our martyr, Joseph Paul Franklin !!!

[Bev]

I tend to believe the various media outlets and the three media witnesses when they say he made no statement. If he had made any sort of pro-white statement, they would have only been too glad to print it along with his and his doctor's/attorney's claims that he was mentally ill and a paranoid schizophrenic.

[The Bobster]

http://nypost.com/2013/11/20/missour...serial-killer/

White supremacist who paralyzed Larry Flynt executed
By Associated Press
November 20, 2013 | 8:02am


Joseph Paul Franklin's 2007 booking photo.


BONNE TERRE, Mo. — Joseph Paul Franklin, a white supremacist who targeted blacks and Jews in a cross-country killing spree from 1977 to 1980, was put to death Wednesday in Missouri, the state’s first execution in nearly three years.

Franklin, 63, was executed at the state prison in Bonne Terre for killing Gerald Gordon in a sniper shooting at a suburban St. Louis synagogue in 1977. Franklin was convicted of seven other murders across the country and claimed responsibility for up to 20 overall, but the Missouri case was the only one that brought a death sentence.

Mike O’Connell, of the Missouri Department of Corrections, said Franklin was pronounced dead at 6:17 a.m.

The execution was the first in Missouri using a single drug, pentobarbital.

Franklin’s fate was sealed early Wednesday when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a federal appeals court ruling that overturned two stays granted Tuesday evening by district court judges in Missouri.


Evil kike Larry Flynt in his famous gold wheelchair. Flynt was paralyzed from the waist down after he was shot by Joseph Paul Franklin.


Franklin also admitted to shooting and wounding civil rights leader Vernon Jordan and Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt, who has been paralyzed from the waist down since the attack in 1978.

Franklin, a paranoid schizophrenic who grew up in Mobile, Ala., was in his mid-20s in 1977 when he began drifting across America, robbing up to 16 banks to fund his travels.

He bombed a synagogue in Chattanooga, Tenn., in July that year. No one was hurt, but the killings began soon after that, many of them sniper shootings.

Franklin had a particular dislike for interracial couples — several of his victims were black men and the white women with them.

He arrived in suburban St. Louis and picked out Brith Sholom Kneseth Israel synagogue from the Yellow Pages. On Oct. 8, 1977, a bar mitzvah ended and guests were in the parking lot when Franklin opened fire from a grassy area nearby, killing Gordon, 42.

The killings continued for three more years. Franklin was finally caught after killing two young black men who were about to go jogging with two teenage white girls in Salt Lake City in August 1980.

Years later, in federal prison, he admitted to the St. Louis County killing. He was sentenced to death in 1997.

Franklin, in the days leading up to the execution, said in several interviews that he was sorry for his crimes and was no longer a racist.

[James Dovery]

The moral of this story is that it is significantly better to die in a shoot out a free man than to be captured by the system and tortured institutionally and euthanized.

No quarter!

[john-connor]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...s-8950932.html

Joseph Paul Franklin, a white supremacist who targeted blacks and Jews in a cross-country killing spree from 1977 to 1980, was today put to death in Missouri, the state's first execution using a single drug, pentobarbital.
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Franklin, 63, was executed at the state prison in Bonne Terre for killing Gerald Gordon in a sniper shooting at a suburban St. Louis synagogue in 1977. Franklin was convicted of seven other murders across the country and claimed responsibility for up to 20 overall, but the Missouri case was the only one that brought a death sentence.

Franklin, 63, was sentenced to die at 12.01am (05.01 GMT) today for killing 42-year-old Gordon in a sniper attack outside a synagogue in 1977 but he was granted a delay of execution just hours before his scheduled death.

The murder of Gordon was one of as many as 20 killings committed by Franklin, who targeted blacks and Jews in a cross-country 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. Franklin also has admitted to shooting and wounding civil rights leader Vernon Jordan and Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt, who has been paralysed from the waist down since the 1978 attack.

Franklin confessed to targeting the porn baron because of a double page spread published in Hustler showing a black man and a white woman together.

But in an interview with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Monday, Franklin, who has been incarcerated since 1980, insisted he no longer hates black people or Jews.

Judge Nanette Laughrey had ruled on a lawsuit filed by Franklin and 20 other death row inmates challenging Missouri's decision to use a single drug, pentobarbital, arguing it would violate a constitutional ban on unusual and cruel forms of punishment. Franklin had been scheduled to die today.

The ruling criticises the timing of the changes to how the state administers capital punishment, looking specifically at the plan to use the drug for the first time ever.

The judge described the execution protocol and the manner in which it has changed repeatedly as a "frustratingly moving target.”

“Throughout this litigation, the details of the execution protocol have been illusive at best,” the judge wrote.

“Given the irreversible nature of the death penalty and plaintiffs' medical evidence and allegations, a stay is necessary to ensure that the defendants' last act against Franklin is not permanent, irremediable cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment.”

Joseph Paul Franklin in photos taken in 2005, 2007 and 2012 Joseph Paul Franklin in photos taken in 2005, 2007 and 2012
The state appealed the ruling to the 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals, though it wasn't clear how quickly that court would rule. A second federal judge, weighing a separate appeal contesting Franklin's competency to be executed based on his mental illness, also granted a delay and said the issue needs “a meaningful review".

Franklin's attorney, Jennifer Herndon, said earlier the execution warrant allowed it to be carried out anytime today.

She said Franklin, who had been diagnosed as mentally ill, did not seem to fully understand the stay.

“He was happy,” she said. “I'm not really convinced that he totally understands that he was going to die.”

Like other states, Missouri has previously used a cocktail of three-drugs to conduct executions. But drugmakers were reluctant to sell those drugs to prisons and corrections departments, so in 2012 Missouri announced a new one-drug execution protocol using propofol.

But Gov. Jay Nixon ordered the Missouri Department of Corrections to produce a new drug after an outcry from the medical profession over planned use of the popular anesthetic in an execution. Most propofol is made in Europe, and the European Union had threatened to limit exports of it.

Nixon spokesman Scott Holste had no immediate comment about the ruling.

[Rounder]

Originally Posted by Bev

I tend to believe the various media outlets and the three media witnesses when they say he made no statement.

Of course you did. I'd thought about clueing you in on jewish control of the media, but decided you couldn't grasp it.

[Bev]

Originally Posted by Rounder

Of course you did. I'd thought about clueing you in on jewish control of the media, but decided you couldn't grasp it.

I think I might have already pointed out earlier in the the thread that the media is not our friend and so it's obvious that if there was a chance that they could have tagged a pro-white final speech under his attorney's claims that he was mentally ill, they would have done. That's a much greater prize - especially given other events in the US at the minute - than pretending he said nothing at all. It's not even like you're in the UK where such things are routinely suppressed.

I may be wrong, of course, but I doubt it.

[James Hawthorne]

Franklin declined to make a final statement.

I guess this statement will have to do then.

The book is dedicated to Mr. Franklin.

"... the Lone Hunter, who saw his duty as a White man and did what a responsible son of his race must do, to the best of his ability and without regard for the personal consequences."

-- Dr. William L. Pierce