Larry Flint, grand manitou de l’industrie pornographique aux États-Unis, s’est exprimé jeudi pour demander que la peine de mort ne soit pas appliquée à l’homme qui lui a tiré dessus en 1978. Joseph Paul Franklin a tiré sur Larry Flint, magnat de l’industrie pornographique, en 1978. Depuis, il a été condamné à mort pour un meurtre commis en 1997.
Paralysé des jambes depuis l’attentat, se déplaçant à l’aide d’un fauteuil roulant, Larry Flint n’est pas animé par l’esprit de vengeance. Dans une lettre parue sur le site du Hollywood reporter, il appelle « à ne pas exécuter l’homme qui l’a rendu paraplégique ». Flint préfère la justice à la vengeance « J’ai passé de nombreuses années dans cette chaise roulante pour penser à cette question. À mon avis, la seule motivation derrière la peine de mort, c’est la vengeance et non la justice. Et je pense foncièrement qu’un gouvernement qui interdit le meurtre parmi ses concitoyens ne devrait pas s’employer lui-même à tuer des gens », écrit Larry Flint dans un plaidoyer contre la peine de mort.
Joseph Paul Franklin, dont l’exécution est prévue le 20 novembre, a été condamné à mort pour avoir tiré sur le parking d’une synagogue, faisant un mort et deux blessés dans le Missouri. « Il avait aussi été reconnu coupable pour le meurtre de deux Noirs dans l’Utah, d’un couple mixte au Wisconsin et d’un attentat contre une synagogue du Tennessee », écrit aussi Le Monde ce vendredi. Il est décrit comme « partisan de la race blanche ». En 1996, l’agression de Larry Flint était montrée dans un film de Milos Forman, consacré au réalisateur pornographique. Il mettait notamment à l’affiche Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love et Edward Norton.
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(Wikipédia) :
Joseph Paul Franklin (born April 13, 1950) is an American serial killer.
List of crimes
1976
- September 6, 1976: Franklin followed an interracial couple down an alley and sprayed mace at them.
- (jour critique physique P7 - veille de jour critique intellectuel i9)
1977
(entrée période critique septennale des 28 ans)
- July 29, 1977: Beth Sholom synagogue in Chattanooga is firebombed. Franklin has confessed to the crime.
- (lendemain de jour critique émotionnel E1 et veille de jour critique physique P12)
- August 7, 1977: dressed in cowboy regalia, Franklin fatally shot a black man and a white woman, Alphonse Manning and Toni Schwenn, while driving away from a bank robbery in Madison, Wisconsin. He was frustrated with the slow speed of Manning's driving. Manning stopped his car and got out; Franklin picked up a stolen handgun and shot him, then walked over to his car and shot his friend.
- (lendemain de jour critique physique P19)
- October 8, 1977: Franklin hid in long grass behind a telegraph pole at Brith Shalom, a synagogue in Richmond Heights, Missouri and used a hunting rifle to kill Gerald Gordon and injure two others. He confessed to this in 1995 and was tried in 1997. He was convicted of murder and sentenced to death by lethal injection in the Potosi Correctional Center in Potosi, Missouri.[1] He is still in prison there.
- (jour critique intellectuel i9)
1978
(période critique septennale des 28 ans)
- Franklin claims that, on March 6, 1978, he used a .44 caliber rifle to ambush Hustler publisher Larry Flynt and his lawyer Gene Reeves in Lawrenceville, Georgia. In his confession, Franklin said this was in retaliation for an edition of Hustler displaying interracial sex. The confession came years after the shooting. Flynt was paralyzed from the waist down. Flynt believes Franklin's confession, but there have been no charges in the case.
- (jour critique physique P1 et jour critique intellectuel i26)
- July 29, 1978: Franklin hid near a Pizza Hut in Chattanooga, and shot and killed Bryant Tatum with a 12-gauge shotgun; he shot his girlfriend, Nancy Hilton; she survived. Franklin confessed and pleaded guilty, being given a life sentence, as well as a sentence for an unrelated armed robbery in 1977.
- (lendemain de jour critique physique P7)
1979
(période critique septennale des 28 ans jusqu'en avril environ)
- July 12, 1979: Taco Bell manager Harold McIver (27), a black man, was fatally shot through a window from 150 yards (140 m) in Doraville, Georgia. Franklin confessed but was not tried or sentenced for this crime. Franklin said that McIver was in close contact with white women, so he murdered him.
- (jour critique émotionnel E15)
- August 18, 1979: Franklin shot and killed a black man seated in a Burger King in Falls Church, Virginia. Franklin confessed to the murder on videotape.
- (lendemain de jour critique physique P1)
- October 21, 1979: Franklin used a rifle to kill an interracial couple, Jesse Taylor, who was black, and Marian Bresette, in Oklahoma City. He has not yet been tried for this murder.
- (jour critique intellectuel i26)
- December 5, 1979: Franklin shot and killed the 15-year-old prostitute Mercedes Lynn Masters, with whom he had previously lived in Dekalb County, Georgia. She had told Franklin that she had black customers.
- (jour critique physique P19 - veille de jour critique émotionnel E22)
1980
- January 8 or January 11, 1980: Franklin murdered a 19-year-old black man in a long-distance rifle attack in Indianapolis. Franklin awaits trial for aggravated murder.
- (le 8 est jour critique physique P7 mais le le 11 est jour critique intellectuel i9 lendemain de jour critique émotionnel E1)
- January 16 or January 17, 1980: Franklin shot a black man with the same rifle from 150 yards (140 m) in Indianapolis. He awaits trial for aggravated murder.
- (veille de jour critique émotionnel E8 ou jour critique émotionnel E8)
- May 2, 1980: Franklin shot hitchhiker Rebecca Bergstrom with a handgun in Monroe County, Wisconsin. He confessed to this murder in 1984.
- (jour critique physique P7 lendemain de jour critique émotionnel E1)
- May 29, 1980: Franklin says he shot and seriously wounded civil rights activist and Urban League president Vernon Jordan, Jr. after seeing him with a white woman in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Franklin initially denied any part in the crime and was acquitted, but later confessed.
- (jour critique émotionnel E1)
- June 8, 1980: Franklin has confessed to killing cousins Darrell Lane (14) and Dante Evans Brown (13) in Cincinnati, Ohio. Waiting on an overpass to shoot a racially mixed couple, he shot the boys instead. He was convicted in 1998 and received two life sentences for these murders.
- (jour critique intellectuel i26)
- June 15, 1980: Franklin shot and killed an interracial couple, Arthur Smothers (22) and Kathleen Mikula (16), in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Franklin has confessed, although Pennsylvania has not extradited and tried him.
- (veille de jour critique intellectuel i1)
- June 25, 1980: Franklin used a .44 Ruger pistol to kill two hitchhikers, Nancy Santomero (19) and Vicki Durian (26), in Pocahontas County, West Virginia. He confessed to the crime in 1997 to an Ohio assistant prosecutor in the course of investigation in another case; he said he picked up the white girls and decided to kill them after one said she had a black boyfriend. Jacob Beard of Florida, was convicted and imprisoned in 1993 on these charges. He was freed in 1999 and a new trial was ordered based on Franklin's confession.
- (lendemain de jour critique intellectuel i9 et veille de jour critique émotionnel E1)
- August 20, 1980: Franklin killed two black men, Ted Fields and David Martin, near Liberty Park located in Salt Lake City, Utah.[1] He was tried on federal civil rights charges as well as state first-degree murder charges.[5]Franklin was convicted and received two life sentences for the murders.
- (lendemain de jour critique physique P1 et veille de jour critique émotionnel E1 et jour critique intellectuel i1)
- September 1980: Franklin escaped from police custody, but was recaptured in Florida.
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j'ai, par curiosité, regardé la situation cyclique de Franklin le jour de ses crimes : ils ont démarré apparemment avec l'arrivée de la période critique septennale des 28 ans et ont toujours été commis en "jour pulsion" souvent "fort", ou à côté d'un tel jour. aucun de ses crimes n'a été commis en jour franchement neutre.
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