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 ...

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 ...

BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) -- 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 ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. A federal judge in Jefferson City on Tuesday afternoon stayed the execution of serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin with questions ...

Avowed racist and convicted murderer Joseph Paul Franklin gestures while seated in the courtroom in Clayton on Feb. 27, 1997. Franklin, who threatened to kill again if allowed to live, was sentenced ...

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 ...

ST. LOUIS -- No one knows exactly how many atrocities Joseph Paul Franklin committed as he crossed the country more than three decades ago, fueled by hatred of blacks and Jews. Along the way he bombed ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Last week, the state of Missouri executed a man by lethal injection ("Missouri executes white supremacist Joseph Paul Franklin," ...

On this day, March 4, 1981, avowed racist Joseph Paul Franklin was convicted of killing two black men who were jogging with two white women in Salt Lake City. Franklin since has confessed to the 1978 ...

BONNE TERRE (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition early Wednesday seeking a stay of execution for white supremacist serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin, who was set to die in Missouri. The ...

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 ...