A US white supremacist who targeted black and Jewish people in a nationwide killing spree has been sentenced and executed in Missouri. Joseph Franklin was charged for shooting dead a man and wounding two others outside a synagogue in 1977. This 63 year old was also convicted of seven other racially motivated murders. In total, he has admitted to 20 in total. The execution came after the US Supreme Court upheld an appeal on the decision to lift a stay of execution. Franklin had declined to make a final statement and was pronounced dead 12:17 GMT on Wednesday. A new agency journalist witnessed that Franklin swallowed hard as five grams of phenobarbital were administered. It took him 10 minutes to be pronounced dead.
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