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A second video, filmed by the owner of the store Alton Sterling was selling CDs in front of, shows a clearer view of the altercation in which Sterling was shot and killed on July 5. It also seems to show officers removing something from Sterling's pocket after he was shot. (Gillian Brockell/The Washington Post)
White supremacist serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin was executed Wednesday morning after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his final requests for a stay, the Missouri Department of Public Safety said.ranklin was also convicted of at least five other murders, receiving a string of life sentences, but he suggested that he was responsible for 22 murders. He was best known for shooting Hustler publisher Larry Flynt, who was paralyzed from the attack. Franklin was executed in November.