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 ...

ST. LOUIS -- Two federal judges Tuesday granted a stay of execution to white supremacist serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin just hours before his scheduled death, citing concerns over the state's new ...

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 ...

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

Franklin was on death row for the 1977 murder of Gerald Gordon outside a St. Louis synagogue. He is blamed for 22 killings between 1977 and 1980. Franklin admitted to shooting and wounding National ...

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 ...

ST. LOUIS — Options for a white supremacist serial killer set to die in Missouri were running out as the state moved toward its first execution in nearly three years. Joseph Paul Franklin, 63, is ...

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Racist serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin was executed early this morning after a murderous cross-country spree from 1977 to 1980, the USA Today reports. The ...

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 ...