By James  Nye and Ryan Gorman and Associated Press Reporter PUBLISHED: 08:00 EST, 20 November 2013 | UPDATED: 10:33 EST, 20 November 2013 The Neo-Nazi serial killer who targeted blacks and Jews and paralyzed pornographer Larry Flynt in 1978 has been executed. Early this morning, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the appeal of two last-minute stays of execution granted to Joseph Paul Franklin over the single drug Missouri planned to use in his execution. Less than one hour later, at 6.17am CST, Franklin's death sentence was carried out with an injection of pentobarbital at the state prison in Bonne Terre, Missouri.
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Joseph Paul Franklin admitted to killing 22 people across multiple states between 1977 and 1980
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He was executed less than an hour after the U.S. Supreme Court put an end to last-minute legal maneuvering
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Franklin declined his last meal, made no statement and said nothing in the death chamber
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He was on Missouri death row for the 1977 killing of a Jewish man outside a St. Louis synagogue
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His lawyers argued pentobarbital was inhumane
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Mr Franklin also shot Hustler publisher Larry Flynt in 1978 in Georgia
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