Man Who Shot Hustler's Larry Flynt in Lawrenceville Executed in Missouri

The man who supposedly shot Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt in Lawrenceville was executed early Wednesday morning.

According to the Associated Press, Joseph Paul Franklin was put to death by lethal injection a state prison in Missouri at 6:17a.m. central time.

Franklin, 63, was a white supremacist who went on a killing spree targeting blacks and Jews from 1977 to 1980.

On March 6 1978, Flynt was standing trial in Lawrenceville on an obscenity charge. He and his lawyer Gene Reeves were walking on S. Perry Street during a lunch break when they were shot by a sniper. Both survived but Flynt was paralyzed.

Franklin later revealed details about the incident that only the shooter would know.

He also told CNN why he shot Flynt. "I saw that interracial couple he had, photographed there, having sex," he told CNN, in reference to the December 1975 issue of the pornographic magazine.

"It just made me sick. I think whites marry with whites, blacks with blacks, Indians with Indians. Orientals with orientals. I threw the magazine down and thought, I'm gonna kill that guy," reports The Daily Mail.