Joseph Paul Franklin Shot Flynt

In March 1978 in Lawrenceville, Georgia, Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt was shot by serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin, a white supremacist who targeted interracial relationships. Franklin opened fire with a rifle outside a courthouse, leaving Flynt paralyzed from the waist down and seriously injuring his attorney, Gene Reeves. Police later arrested Franklin and convicted him of multiple racially motivated murders across the United States. Despite being the victim of the serial killer, Flynt publicly opposed Franklin’s execution and argued that a government should not practice the killing it forbids its citizens from committing.

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