US Executes White Supremacist Serial Killer

A white supremacist serial killer who targeted blacks and Jews has been executed in the United States. Officials in Missouri administered a lethal injection Wednesday to Joseph Paul Franklin, 63, after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his last bids for a stay of execution. Franklin was the 35th inmate executed in the United States this year. He was put to death for killing a man outside a St. Louis synagogue in 1977, but also had been convicted of killing seven others in the late 1970s...

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