Federal Judge Stays Missouri Serial Killer Execution
Hours before scheduled death
A federal judge in Missouri has given a stay of execution to white supremacist serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin just hours before his scheduled death.
U.S. District Court Judge Nanette Laughrey ruled late Tuesday afternoon that a lawsuit filed by Franklin and 20 other death-row inmates challenging Missouri's execution protocol must first be resolved.
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PLEASE keep them all alive, at taxpayer expense, so that we loverly oh-so-concerned defense lawyers can endlessly appeal their sentences, for just a FEW more decades?!?! Nothin' ta do w/our paychecks, y'all must unnerstand? ALL ta do w/our concern for JUSTICE, see, just as long as the murderous bahstahds aren't released into MY house with MY teenage daughters in sight? Hide the wimmen an' the whiskey, the pepples ah has bin defendin', is ah cumin' ta town!!!