ST. LOUIS — We’re taking a look back at some of the biggest cases in the St. Louis area. The execution of this nationally-known killer is one of the most infamous. Joseph Paul Franklin, an American ...

Joseph Paul Franklin is executed after the Supreme Court declines to step in Two judges granted stays Tuesday He shot Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt He was executed for a 1977 killing outside ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Sept. 28, 1981, Joseph Paul Franklin, avowed racist and domestic terrorist, was sentenced to life imprisonment for ...

(Reuters) - Missouri serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin was executed by lethal injection early Wednesday, an hour after the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for him to be put to death. Franklin, 63, ...

Nov 20, 2013 Nov 20, 2013 Updated Jun 12, 2015 UPDATE: On Wednesday morning, the U.S. Supreme Court denied an execution stay for Joseph Paul Franklin. The state carried out the execution Wednesday ...

Joseph Paul Franklin, the white supremacist serial killer convicted of eight murders and who admitted to shootings that wounded civil rights leader Vernon Jordan and paralyzed Hustler magazine ...

On June 17, 2015, Dylann Roof, a self-proclaimed white supremacist and neo-Nazi, joined 12 parishioners attending Bible study at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, took out his gun, and killed ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bonne Terre, Missouri: 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 ...