Avowed anti-Semite who gunned down 3 in Kansas dies in prison
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Frazier Glenn Miller Jr., an avowed anti-Semite and former local KKK leader convicted of murdering three people at Jewish sites in Kansas in 2014, has died in prison.
He was 80.
Miller, also known by the surname Cross, died Monday at the El Dorado Correctional Facility, where he was serving a sentence for capital murder, attempted murder, assault and firearms convictions, The Associated Press reported. An autopsy will be performed, but Miller appeared to have died of natural causes, Kansas Department of Corrections spokeswoman Carol Pitts said in a statement obtained by AP.
It was April of 2014 when Miller drove from his Aurora, Missouri, home to Kansas, bent on killing Jews. First he ambushed William Corporon, 69, and his 14-year-old grandson, Reat Underwood, at the Jewish Community Center in Overland Park. Then he drove a few miles to the Village Shalom care center and killed Terri LaManno.
As it happened, he did not succeed in killing any Jews. Two of the victims were Methodist, and the other was Catholic.
The former “grand dragon” of the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, representing himself at trial, said he had wanted to kill Jewish people before he died, and that he didn’t have long to live, according to AP at the time. During his trial a doctor testified that with his chronic emphysema and other ills, he most likely had five or six years left to live.
That did not sway Johnson County District Judge Thomas Kelly Ryan, who sentenced him to death, on recommendation of the jury.
“Your attempt to bring hate this this community, to bring terror to this community, has failed,” Ryan said sternly before sentencing Miller to die by lethal injection. “You have failed, Mr. Miller.”
As recently as March of this year, Miller’s attorneys appealed his death sentence on the grounds that he had been incapable of understanding the legal complexities of the death penalty case against him and should not have been allowed to serve as his own lawyer. They argued that, even though Miller had insisted on representing himself, his standby attorneys should have been permitted to intervene during the penalty phase.