11-20-2013, 09:42 AM
Execution Stayed - Death Drug Appeal Succeeds in Missouri
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Joseph Paul Franklin
This is the lovely white supremacist who killed a Jewish man in front of his family, two black boys and an interracial couple back in the late 70s and early 80s. The same gentleman who is thought to have killed up to 20 Jews and blacks and who attempted to kill Hustler Magazine publisher Larry Flynt for publishing pics of a black man getting down with white women. Franklin failed to kill Flynt, but did succeed in paralyzing him for life.
Well, Franklin was scheduled to be executed this morning. But, his attorneys managed to stay his execution based on the controversy over the death drugs to be used.
The judge's 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.
Judge 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."
One of those who petitioned against Franklin's execution was none other than Larry Flynt. Flynt said he doesn't care or think about Franklin at all, but he is staunchly against the government killing its own people. Franklin did an interview last week; he really wants to live. Franklin's response to Flynt's efforts to prevent his execution, when asked by a reporter, "haha, thank you, my brother!".
Joseph Paul Franklin
This is the lovely white supremacist who killed a Jewish man in front of his family, two black boys and an interracial couple back in the late 70s and early 80s. The same gentleman who is thought to have killed up to 20 Jews and blacks and who attempted to kill Hustler Magazine publisher Larry Flynt for publishing pics of a black man getting down with white women. Franklin failed to kill Flynt, but did succeed in paralyzing him for life.
Well, Franklin was scheduled to be executed this morning. But, his attorneys managed to stay his execution based on the controversy over the death drugs to be used.
The judge's 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.
Judge 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."
One of those who petitioned against Franklin's execution was none other than Larry Flynt. Flynt said he doesn't care or think about Franklin at all, but he is staunchly against the government killing its own people. Franklin did an interview last week; he really wants to live. Franklin's response to Flynt's efforts to prevent his execution, when asked by a reporter, "haha, thank you, my brother!".