Joseph Paul Franklin

James Clayton Vaughn Jr. was born in Mobile, Alabama, on April 13, 1950, the elder son of James Clayton Vaughn Sr. and Helen Rau Vaughn. He had two sisters and a brother.{{cite web |url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/423604/LIFE-OF-HATE-AND-KILLING-BEGAN-IN-50.html?pg=all |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160813113420/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/423604/LIFE-OF-HATE-AND-KILLING-BEGAN-IN-50.html?pg=all |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 13, 2016 |title=Life of hate and killing began in '50 |newspaper=Deseret News |publisher=Deseret News Publishing Company |location=Salt Lake City, UT |date=June 19, 1995 |access-date=November 27, 2018}} Vaughn's father was a World War II veteran and butcher who left the family when Vaughn was aged eight.{{cite magazine |first=James R. |last=Gaines |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20077938,00.html |title=On the trail of a murderous sniper suspect: The tangled life of Joseph Paul Franklin |magazine=People |publisher=Meredith Corporation |location=New York, NY |date=November 24, 1980 |access-date=November 27, 2018 |archive-date=September 14, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160914222452/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20077938,00.html |url-status=dead }} His sister Carolyn recalled, "Whenever [Vaughn Sr.] came to visit he'd beat us," and their mother had Vaughn Sr. jailed twice for public drunkenness. Vaughn's mother was described by a family friend as "a full-blooded German, a real strict, perfectionist lady. I never saw her beat any of [her children], but they told me stories."

Vaughn later stated that he was rarely given enough to eat and suffered severe physical abuse as a child,{{cite magazine |first=Malcolm |last=Gladwell |author-link=Malcolm Gladwell |title=Damaged |url=http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=1997-02-24#folio=132 |magazine=The New Yorker |publisher=Condé Nast |location=New York, NY |date=February 24, 1997 |pages=132–47 |access-date=November 17, 2013}} and that his mother "didn't care about [him and his siblings]".{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/18/justice/death-row-interview-joseph-paul-franklin/index.html?hpt=hp_t2 |title=Serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin prepares to die |publisher=CNN |date=November 18, 2013 |access-date=November 18, 2013 |archive-date=October 29, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171029121256/http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/18/justice/death-row-interview-joseph-paul-franklin/index.html?hpt=hp_t2 |url-status=live }} He claimed that these factors stunted his emotional development, and said he had "always been [at] least ten years or more behind other people in their maturity."

As early as high school, Vaughn developed an interest in evangelical Christianity, then in Nazism, and later held memberships in both the National Socialist White People's Party and the Ku Klux Klan. He eventually changed his name to "Joseph Paul Franklin" in honor of Paul Joseph Goebbels and Benjamin Franklin.{{cite news |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,949029,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081224035925/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,949029,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 24, 2008 |title=Racist rifleman |magazine=Time |publisher=Meredith Corporation |location=New York, NY |date=November 10, 1980 |access-date=May 7, 2010 |url-access=subscription}} In the 1960s, Franklin was inspired to start a race war after reading Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf. "I've never felt that way about any other book that I read," he later reflected. "It was something weird about that book."{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25016217 |title=Joseph Franklin, white supremacist serial killer, executed |date=November 20, 2013 |publisher=British Broadcasting Corporation |access-date=June 20, 2018 |archive-date=June 9, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200609124658/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25016217 |url-status=live }}

In the early 1970s, he took a road trip to an American Nazi Party conference in Virginia with David Duke (then a student) and Don Black.{{cite podcast |url=https://slate.com/podcasts/slow-burn/s4/david-duke/e2/david-duke-ku-klux-klan |title=Robe and ritual |author=Josh Levin |author-link=Josh Levin |publisher=Slate |date=June 10, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200612175910/https://slate.com/podcasts/slow-burn/s4/david-duke/e2/david-duke-ku-klux-klan |series=Season 4 Episode 2 |archive-date=June 12, 2020 |work=Slow Burn |quote=As a student at LSU, [David] Duke wrote letters to the National Socialist White People’s Party, the group formerly known as the American Nazi Party. These Nazis invited Duke to their annual conference in Virginia and suggested that he carpool with two other white supremacists. Here’s the author, Eli Saslow. One of them was about his age. A guy named Joseph Paul Franklin. The other was about two or three years younger. A guy named Don Black. And they piled into this car and started driving, you know, at 800 miles up the highway. And over the course of those hours, these three kids became really close. |access-date=June 12, 2020 |url-status=bot: unknown }}

For much of his life, Franklin was a drifter, roaming the East Coast seeking chances to "cleanse the world" of people he considered inferior, especially black and Jewish people. His primary source of financial support appears to have been bank robberies. Franklin supplemented his income from criminal acts with paid blood bank donations, which eventually led to his subsequent capture by the FBI.{{cite web|url=https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/serial-killers-part-4/|title=FBI - Serial Killers, Part 4: Joseph Paul Franklin|date=March 7, 2017|publisher=Federal Bureau of Investigation|access-date=March 8, 2017|archive-date=February 11, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210211183109/https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/serial-killers-part-4|url-status=live}}

• July 29, 1977: Franklin firebombed Beth Shalom Synagogue in Chattanooga, Tennessee, destroying it. Loss of life was prevented because some of the worshippers left early that Friday evening and as a result, there were not enough worshippers for a minyan.{{Cite web|url=https://www.jta.org/1977/08/02/archive/explosion-demolishes-synagogue-in-tennessee-wires-found-leading-from-synagogue-to-motel-100-yards-a|title=Explosion Demolishes Synagogue in Tennessee; Wires Found Leading from Synagogue to Motel 100 Yards a|date=August 2, 1977|access-date=November 3, 2018|archive-date=November 3, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181103131428/https://www.jta.org/1977/08/02/archive/explosion-demolishes-synagogue-in-tennessee-wires-found-leading-from-synagogue-to-motel-100-yards-a|url-status=live}}{{cite news|first=Richard|last=Severo|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/08/us/former-klansman-indicted-in-bombing-of-a-synagogue.html|title=Former Klansman Indicted in Bombing of a Synagogue|newspaper=The New York Times|location=New York City|date=March 8, 1984|access-date=November 27, 2018|archive-date=November 3, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181103131455/https://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/08/us/former-klansman-indicted-in-bombing-of-a-synagogue.html|url-status=live}}
• August 7, 1977: Franklin shot and killed a young interracial couple, Alphonse Manning Jr. and Toni Schwenn, in a parking lot at East Towne Mall in Madison, Wisconsin. He was later convicted of both murders and was sentenced to life in prison.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/15/us/man-is-convicted-of-killing-interracial-couple-in-wisconsin-in-77.html|title=Man Is Convicted of Killing Interracial Couple in Wisconsin in 1977|newspaper=The New York Times|location=New York City|agency=The Associated Press|date=February 14, 1986|access-date=November 27, 2018|archive-date=November 27, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181127152105/https://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/15/us/man-is-convicted-of-killing-interracial-couple-in-wisconsin-in-77.html|url-status=live}}
• October 8, 1977: In suburban St. Louis, Missouri, Franklin hid in the bushes near Brith Sholom Kneseth Israel synagogue and fired on a group attending services. In this incident, Franklin killed 42-year-old Gerald Gordon. He also wounded Steven Goldman and William Ash.{{cite book|first=Kris|last=Hollington|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I8LHU4f_hkQC&pg=PA212|title=Wolves, Jackals, and Foxes: The Assassins Who Changed History|publisher=Macmillan Publishers|location=London, England|date=2008|isbn=978-1429986809}}

• March 6, 1978: Franklin, according to his later account, used a Ruger .44 caliber semi-automatic rifle{{cite book|first=Mel|last=Ayton|title=Dark Soul of the South: The Life and Crimes of Racist Killer Joseph Paul Franklin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3CO7wbCkKsYC&pg=PA1745|date=2011|publisher=Potomac Books, Inc.|location=Lincoln, Nebraska|isbn=978-1-59797-574-2|pages=1745–}} to ambush Hustler publisher Larry Flynt and his lawyer Gene Reeves in Lawrenceville, Georgia. In his confession, Franklin said this was in retaliation for an edition of Hustler displaying interracial sex. Neither Franklin nor anyone else was ever charged in that shooting.
• July 29, 1978: Franklin hid near a Pizza Hut in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and shot and killed William Bryant Tatum, a black man, with a 12-gauge shotgun; he also shot Tatum's white girlfriend, Nancy Hilton, who survived. Franklin later confessed and pleaded guilty. He was given a life sentence, as well as a sentence for an unrelated armed robbery in 1977.

• July 12, 1979: Taco Bell manager Harold McIver, a black man, was fatally shot through a window from {{convert|150|yd}} in Doraville, Georgia. Franklin confessed but was not tried or sentenced for this crime. Franklin said that McIver was in close contact with white women, so he murdered him.
• October 21, 1979: Franklin killed Jesse E. Taylor, a black man, and his white wife, Marion Bresette, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

• May 29, 1980: Franklin confessed to shooting and seriously wounding civil rights activist and Urban League president Vernon Jordan after seeing him with a white woman in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Franklin initially denied any part in the crime and was acquitted, but later confessed.
• June 8, 1980: Franklin killed cousins Darrell Lane (14) and Dante Evans Brown (13) in Cincinnati, Ohio. Waiting on an overpass to shoot a racially mixed couple, he shot the boys instead, a crime to which he later confessed. He was convicted in 1998 and received two life sentences for these murders.{{cite web |url=http://www.courttv.com/archive/trials/franklin/102298.html |title=Ohio v. Joseph Paul Franklin Updates |website=Court TV Online |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031023011631/http://www.courttv.com/archive/trials/franklin/102298.html |archive-date=October 23, 2003 |access-date=November 22, 2013}}
• June 15, 1980: Franklin shot and killed Arthur Smothers (22) and Kathleen Mikula (16) with a high-powered rifle as the couple walked across the Washington Street Bridge in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Smothers was black; Mikula was white. On the day of the murder, Franklin took a concealed position on a wooded hillside overlooking downtown Johnstown and waited for potential targets to enter his line of sight. He was never arrested for these murders, but he confessed to them during a jailhouse interview after he was apprehended.{{cite news|date=November 18, 2013|first=Dave|last=Sutor|title=Death nears for couple's killer|url=http://www.tribdem.com/news/local_news/death-nears-for-couple-s-killer/article_3659e44b-ff53-5b7d-82c0-5a84a6717ff3.html|newspaper=The Tribune-Democrat|access-date=June 19, 2017|archive-date=June 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210620054622/https://www.tribdem.com/news/local_news/death-nears-for-couple-s-killer/article_3659e44b-ff53-5b7d-82c0-5a84a6717ff3.html|url-status=live}}
• June 25, 1980: Franklin used a .44 Ruger pistol to kill two hitchhikers, Nancy Santomero (19) and Vicki Durian (26), in Pocahontas County, West Virginia. He confessed to the crime in 1997 to an Ohio assistant prosecutor in the course of investigation in another case. He said he picked up the white women and decided to kill them after one said she had a black boyfriend. Jacob Beard of Florida was convicted and imprisoned in 1993 on these charges. He was freed in 1999 and a new trial was ordered based on Franklin's confession.[http://www.enquirer.com/editions/1999/01/30/loc_franklins_confession.html Dan Horn, "Franklin's confession frees man: Judge grants new trial in W.Va. slayings], Cincinnati Enquirer, January 30, 1999. Retrieved May 7, 2012
• August 20, 1980: Franklin killed two black men, Ted Fields and David Martin, near Liberty Park located in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was tried on federal civil rights charges as well as state first-degree murder charges.{{cite news | url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D05EEDE173BF935A35752C0A967948260&n=Top%2fNews%2fNational%2fU%2eS%2e%20States%2c%20Territories%20and%20Possessions%2fUtah | newspaper=The New York Times | location=New York City | title=AROUND THE NATION; Judge Denies Trial Request For Suspect in Iowa Deaths | date=January 6, 1981 | access-date=May 7, 2010 | archive-date=April 23, 2008 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080423030048/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D05EEDE173BF935A35752C0A967948260&n=Top%2FNews%2FNational%2FU.S.%20States%2C%20Territories%20and%20Possessions%2FUtah | url-status=live }} He was convicted of both murders and was sentenced to life in prison.{{cite web|url=https://law.justia.com/cases/utah/supreme-court/1987/18052-0.html|title=State v. Franklin|website=Justia|access-date=October 2, 2024|archive-date=January 4, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220104164027/https://law.justia.com/cases/utah/supreme-court/1987/18052-0.html|url-status=live}}

Following the two murders in Utah, Franklin returned to the midwestern U.S. Traveling through Kentucky, he was detained and questioned regarding a firearm that he was transporting in his car. Franklin fled from this interrogation, but authorities recovered sufficient evidence from his vehicle to potentially link him to the sniper killings. His conspicuous racist tattoos, coupled with his habit of visiting blood banks, led investigators to issue a nationwide alert to blood banks. In October 1980, the tattoos drew the attention of a Florida blood bank worker, who contacted the FBI. Franklin was arrested in Lakeland on October 28, 1980.

Franklin faced legal action across the U.S. for the next two decades, eventually being convicted of multiple murders, attacks, and other crimes at both the state and federal levels. He was sentenced to life in prison and received the death penalty in several states.{{cite web | url=https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/serial-killers-part-4 | title=Serial Killers, Part 4: White Supremacist Joseph Franklin }}

Franklin tried unsuccessfully to escape during the judgment phase of his 1997 Missouri trial on charges of murdering Gerald Gordon but was ultimately convicted. Psychiatrist Dorothy Otnow Lewis, who had interviewed him at length, testified for the defense that she believed that he was a paranoid schizophrenic and unfit to stand trial. Lewis noted his delusional thinking and a childhood history of severe abuse.

In October 2013, victim Larry Flynt called for clemency for Franklin, asserting "that a government that forbids killing among its citizens should not be in the business of killing people itself."{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24579849|title=Larry Flynt: Don't execute man who shot me|date=October 18, 2013|access-date=October 18, 2013|work=BBC News|archive-date=September 24, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180924201200/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24579849|url-status=live}}

Franklin was held on death row at the Potosi Correctional Center near Mineral Point, Missouri. In August 2013, the Missouri Supreme Court announced that Franklin would be executed on November 20.{{cite web |url=http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2013/08/15/execution-date-set-for-infamous-racist-serial-killer |title=Execution Date Set for Infamous Racist Serial Killer |publisher=Splcenter.org |date=2013-08-15 |access-date=2014-01-18 |archive-date=April 23, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150423060201/http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2013/08/15/execution-date-set-for-infamous-racist-serial-killer/ |url-status=live }} Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster said in a statement that by setting execution dates, the state high court "has taken an important step to see that justice is finally done for the victims and their families."{{cite news|date=16 Aug 2013|first=Jim|last=Salter|title=Concern over pending Mo. executions|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2013/08/15/concerns-raised-over-pending-missouri-executions/jRrn2Xuq3gd3u5drmm6EUO/story.html|newspaper=The Boston Globe|access-date=November 20, 2013|archive-date=July 7, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180707172519/https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2013/08/15/concerns-raised-over-pending-missouri-executions/jRrn2Xuq3gd3u5drmm6EUO/story.html|url-status=live}}

Franklin's execution was affected by the European Union export ban when the German drug manufacturer Fresenius Kabi was obliged to refuse having their drugs used for lethal injections.{{cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21588916-technical-hitch-stays-executioners-needle-cruel-and-unusable?frsc=dg%7Ca|title=Cruel and unusable|newspaper=The Economist|date=November 1, 2013|access-date=December 24, 2018|archive-date=March 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304215415/http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21588916-technical-hitch-stays-executioners-needle-cruel-and-unusable?frsc=dg%7Ca|url-status=live}} In response, Missouri announced that it would use for Franklin's execution a new method of lethal injection, which used a single drug provided by an unnamed compounding pharmacy.{{cite news |date=20 Nov 2013|title=Missouri executes prisoner using single drug from secret pharmacy|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/20/missouri-executes-joseph-paul-franklin-pentobarbital|newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=November 21, 2013}}

A day before his execution, U.S. District Judge Nanette Laughrey (Jefferson City) granted a stay of execution over concerns raised about the new method of execution.{{cite news|date=November 19, 2013|title=US serial killer Joseph Franklin granted stay of execution|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25012654|work=BBC News|access-date=November 20, 2013|archive-date=October 13, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181013005156/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25012654|url-status=live}} A second stay was granted that evening by US District Judge Carol E. Jackson (St. Louis), based on Franklin's claim that he was too mentally incompetent to be executed. An appeals court quickly overturned both stays,{{cite news|first=Joseph|last=Kohler|url=https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/missouri-executes-white-supremacist-joseph-paul-franklin/article_2ccc002e-4105-5424-a7e6-e99702a1f644.html|title=Missouri executes white supremacist Joseph Paul Franklin|newspaper=St. Louis Post-Dispatch|date=November 20, 2013|archive-date=February 7, 2019|access-date=February 20, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190207192426/https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/missouri-executes-white-supremacist-joseph-paul-franklin/article_2ccc002e-4105-5424-a7e6-e99702a1f644.html|url-status=live}} and the Supreme Court subsequently rejected his final appeals.{{cite news|date=November 20, 2013|title=Missouri executes serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin|url=https://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-court-lifts-stay-of-execution-for-serial-killer-20131120,0,2989739.story|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|access-date=November 20, 2013|archive-date=November 20, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131120145845/http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-court-lifts-stay-of-execution-for-serial-killer-20131120,0,2989739.story|url-status=live}}{{cite news|date=November 20, 2013|first=Lateef|last=Mungin|title=Serial killer Joseph Franklin executed after hours of delay|url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/20/justice/missouri-franklin-execution/|website=CNN|access-date=November 20, 2013|archive-date=May 2, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190502173419/https://www.cnn.com/2013/11/20/justice/missouri-franklin-execution/|url-status=live}}

In an interview with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper published on November 17, 2013, Franklin said he had renounced his racist views. He said his motivation had been "illogical" and was partly a consequence of an abusive upbringing. He said he had interacted with black people in prison, adding: "I saw they were people just like us."{{cite news|first=Jeremy|last=Kohler|url=https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/condemned-serial-killer-on-missouri-death-row-says-he-has/article_bff3dc15-9f96-5858-891a-a46d2ad5bd43.html|title=Condemned serial killer on Missouri death row says he has remorse, is no longer a racist|newspaper=St. Louis Post-Dispatch|date=November 19, 2013|access-date=April 17, 2014|archive-date=August 21, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140821235045/http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/condemned-serial-killer-on-missouri-death-row-says-he-has/article_bff3dc15-9f96-5858-891a-a46d2ad5bd43.html|url-status=live}}

Franklin was executed at the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Bonne Terre, Missouri, on November 20, 2013. The execution began at 6:07 a.m. CST and he was pronounced dead at 6:17 a.m. His execution was the first lethal injection in Missouri to use pentobarbital alone instead of the conventional use of three drugs.

An Associated Press agency report said that {{convert|5|g}} of the barbiturate pentobarbital was administered.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25016217|title=Joseph Franklin, white supremacist serial killer, executed|work=BBC News|date=20 November 2013|access-date=December 24, 2018|archive-date=June 9, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200609124658/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25016217|url-status=live}}

Three media witnesses said Franklin did not seem to show pain. He did not make any final written statement and did not speak a word in the death chamber. After the injection, he blinked a few times, breathed heavily a few times, and swallowed hard, the witnesses said. The heaving of his chest slowed, and finally stopped, they said.{{cite news|last=Kohler|first=Jeremy|title=Missouri executes white supremacist Joseph Paul Franklin|url=https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/missouri-executes-white-supremacist-joseph-paul-franklin/article_2ccc002e-4105-5424-a7e6-e99702a1f644.html|access-date=January 9, 2014|newspaper=St. Louis Post-Dispatch|date=November 20, 2013|archive-date=February 7, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190207192426/https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/missouri-executes-white-supremacist-joseph-paul-franklin/article_2ccc002e-4105-5424-a7e6-e99702a1f644.html|url-status=live}}

Hunter (1989), a novel by the white supremacist William L. Pierce, revolves around protagonist Oscar Yeager, a racist serial killer who murders interracial couples.{{cite news|last=Mills|first=David|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1993/05/16/dont-think-twice-its-all-white/da028467-ba72-448b-9af1-4d6c8a30d511/|title=Don't Think Twice, It's All White|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=May 16, 1993|access-date=December 24, 2018|archive-date=March 26, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210326093204/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1993/05/16/dont-think-twice-its-all-white/da028467-ba72-448b-9af1-4d6c8a30d511/|url-status=live}} Pierce, founder of the National Alliance and author of a similarly themed novel, The Turner Diaries, dedicated the book to Joseph Paul Franklin,{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9504E5DC1238F937A15754C0A9649C8B63|title=William Pierce, 69, Neo-Nazi Leader, Dies|newspaper=The New York Times|date=July 24, 2002}} and said of Franklin that "he saw his duty as a white man and did what a responsible son of his race must do."{{cite web|url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2014/murders-price|title=MURDER'S PRICE|first=Don|last=Perry|date=February 25, 2014 |publisher=Southern Poverty Law Center|access-date=July 26, 2016|archive-date=August 22, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210822201251/https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2014/murders-price|url-status=live}}{{cite book|first=Philip|last=Jenkins|title=Images of Terror: What We Can and Can't Know About Terrorism|publisher=Transaction Publishers|location=Piscataway, New Jersey|date=2003|isbn=0202306798|page=76}} In the 1996 film The People vs. Larry Flynt, Franklin was portrayed by Czech actor Jan Tříska. In 2009, Franklin appeared in the MSNBC TV series Criminal Mindscape.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4557828/?ref_=ttep_ep3|title=Criminal Mindscape|date=November 8, 2009|publisher=IMDb|access-date=September 2, 2020|archive-date=April 5, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230405111823/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4557828/?ref_=ttep_ep3|url-status=live}}

• Neal Long, another serial killer motivated by racism
• Capital punishment in Missouri
• Capital punishment in the United States
• List of people executed in Missouri
• List of people executed in the United States in 2013
• List of homicides in Wisconsin

General:

• List of serial killers by number of victims
• List of serial killers in the United States

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• Mel Ayton, Dark Soul of the South: The Life and Crimes of Racist Killer Joseph Paul Franklin, Potomac Press, Inc., 2011
• Ralph Kennedy Echols, Life Without Mercy: Jake Beard, Joseph Paul Franklin and the Rainbow Murders, Kennedy Books, Scottsdale, AZ, 2014

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• {{cite web |url=http://www.courttv.com/onair/shows/mugshots/indepth/franklin.html |title=Joseph Paul Franklin |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000818052957/http://www.courttv.com/onair/shows/mugshots/indepth/franklin.html |archive-date=2000-08-18 |access-date=November 22, 2013}}, Court TV: police photography
• {{cite web |url=http://www.courttv.com/archive/trials/franklin/ |title=Joseph Paul Franklin, second trial |publisher=Court TV |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031023010812/http://www.courttv.com/archive/trials/franklin/ |archive-date=2003-10-23 |access-date=November 22, 2013}}
• [http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=1997-02-24#folio=132 Malcolm Gladwell, "Damaged"], New Yorker, February 24, 1997
• {{IMDb name | id=1007023 | name=Joseph Paul Franklin}}
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20151003223335/https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2014/january/serial-killers-part-4-joseph-paul-franklin Serial Killers - Part 4: White Supremacist Joseph Franklin], FBI
• [http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/17/witness-against-racist-serial-killer-says-prosecutor-raped-her Serial Killer's Survivor: Prosecutor Raped Me During the Trial]

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