ST. LOUIS (AP) — Options for a white supremacist serial killer set to die in Missouri were running out as the state moved toward its first execution in nearly three years. Joseph Paul Franklin, 63, is scheduled to die at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday for killing 42-year-old Gerald Gordon in a sniper attack outside a suburban St. Louis synagogue in 1977. It was one of as many as 20 killings committed by Franklin, who targeted blacks and Jews in a cross-country killing spree from 1977 to 1980. He was convicted of seven other murders but the Missouri case was the only one resulting in a death sentence. Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon on Monday refused to halt the execution, denying Franklin's clemency request...
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