ABOUT JOSEPH PAUL FRANKLIN
Known as The Racist Killer, he confessed to the attempted murder of Larry Flynt and civil rights activist Vernon Jordan, Jr .
He held membership in the National Socialist White People's Party and the Ku Klux Klan.
He was given six life sentences and a death sentence, having killed at least 7 people based on racial motivations.
He married after dropping out of high school and had one child; the marriage ended after a year.
He admired Adolf Hitler and shared his hatred for Jews.