Joseph Paul Franklin (April 13, 1950 – November 20, 2013) was an American serial killer. He tried to kill Larry Flynt, a magazine publisher, in 1978 and Vernon Jordan, Jr., the civil rights activist, in 1980. He has been given six life sentences. He lived at Potosi Correctional Center on death row. On November 20, 2013 he was executed at 8:30am with Propofol, a lethal drug, for killing a Jewish man outside a synagogue.[1]
| Joseph Paul Franklin | |
|---|---|
| Background information | |
| Birth name | James Clayton Vaughn, Jr. |
| Also known as | James Clayton Vaughn The Racist Killer |
| Born | April 13, 1950 Mobile, Alabama |
| Died | November 20, 2013 (aged 63) Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Bonne Terre, Missouri |
| Penalty | Execution by lethal injection |
| Killings | |
| Number of victims | 7–22 |
| Span of killings | August 7, 1977–August 20, 1980 |
| Country | United States |
| State(s) | Wisconsin, Missouri, Tennessee, Georgia, Virginia, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Utah |
| Motive | Racism, white supremacy |
| Date apprehended | October 28, 1980 |
He was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. Franklin said that he thought he deserved to die for his crimes.[2] Larry Flynt wrote in an essay published in the Hollywood Reporter, “I do not want to see him die.”[3] Franklin was executed on November 20, 2013 by lethal injection.[4]
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