Joseph Paul Franklin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Joseph Paul Franklin

American serial killer

Date of Birth: 13-Apr-1950

Place of Birth: Mobile, Alabama, United States

Date of Death: 20-Nov-2013

Profession: murderer, journalist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Joseph Paul Franklin (born James Clayton Vaughn Jr.; April 13, 1950 – November 20, 2013) was an American white supremacist and serial killer who engaged in a murder spree spanning the late 1970s and early 1980s. Franklin was convicted of several murders and received six life sentences, as well as two death sentences.
He also confessed to the attempted murders of magazine publisher Larry Flynt in 1978 and civil rights activist Vernon Jordan in 1980.
Both survived their injuries, but Flynt was left permanently paralyzed from the waist down.
Franklin was not convicted in either of those highly publicized cases, and he made his confessions years after the crimes had occurred.
Because he repeatedly changed his accounts of some crimes, and was not charged in some of the cases in which he was suspected, officials cannot determine the full extent of Franklin's crimes.
His claims of racial motivation were offset by a defense expert witness who testified in 1997 that Franklin had paranoid schizophrenia and was not fit to stand trial. Franklin was on Missouri's death row for 15 years awaiting execution for the 1977 murder of Gerald Gordon.
He was executed by lethal injection on November 20, 2013.