Convicted Racist Serial Killer Set To Die Wednesday

Ponca City Now - November 16, 2013 8:38 am

ST. LOUIS (AP) – A Missouri death row inmate suspected of killing an interracial couple in Oklahoma City in 1979 during a hate-fueled crime spree is scheduled to be executed next week. No one knows how many atrocities Joseph Paul Franklin committed but by his own account, he killed nearly two dozen people. He’s slated to die of lethal injection on Wednesday.

 

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