three drug cocktail. An Associated Press agency report said that of the barbiturate pentobarbital was administered. Three media witnesses said Franklin did not seem to show pain. He did not make any final written statement and did not speak a word in the death chamber. After the injection, he blinked a few times, breathed heavily a few times, and swallowed hard, the witnesses said. The heaving of his chest slowed, and finally stopped, they said. Representation in other media Hunter (1989), a novel by the white supremacist William L. Pierce, revolves around protagonist Oscar Yeager, a racist serial killer who murders interracial couples. Pierce, founder of the National Alliance and author of a similarly themed novel, The Turner Diaries, dedicated the book to Joseph Paul Franklin, and said of Franklin that "he saw his duty as a white man and did what a responsible son of his race must do." In the 1996 film The People vs. Larry Flynt, Franklin was portrayed by Czech actor Jan Tříska. In 2009, Franklin appeared in the MSNBC TV series Criminal Mindscape. See also Capital punishment in Missouri Capital punishment in the United States List of people executed in Missouri List of people executed in the United States in 2013 List of homicides in Wisconsin General: List of serial killers by number of victims List of serial killers in the United States References Further reading Mel Ayton, Dark Soul of the South: The Life and Crimes of Racist Killer Joseph Paul Franklin, Potomac Press, Inc., 2011 Ralph Kennedy Echols, Life Without Mercy: Jake Beard, Joseph Paul Franklin and the Rainbow Murders, Kennedy Books, Scottsdale, AZ, 2014 External links , Court TV: police photography Malcolm Gladwell, "Damaged", New Yorker, February 24, 1997 Serial Killers - Part 4: White Supremacist Joseph Franklin, FBI Serial Killer's Survivor: Prosecutor Raped Me During the Trial 1950 births 2013 deaths 20th-century American criminals 21st-century executions by Missouri 21st-century executions of American people American arsonists American bank robbers American criminal snipers American escapees American male criminals American murderers of children American Nazi Party members American prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment Escapees from Missouri detention Executed American serial killers Executed people from Alabama Former Ku Klux Klan members Male serial killers People convicted of murder by Missouri People executed by Missouri by lethal injection People from Mobile, Alabama People from St. Louis County, Missouri People from Washington County, Missouri Race and crime