James Taranto

We could hurl our usual shit-related epithets at The Wall Street Journal ’s hack columnist, but that would be letting him off too easy. Instead, we’ll take a shot at doing what James Taranto says Gabrielle Giffords can’t: write “900 publishable words.”

From The New Zealand Harald

Larry Flynt vs capital punishment

By the brutal norms of American capital punishment, few recipients of a lethal injection will trouble consciences less deeply than Joseph Paul Franklin.

From The Times of Israel

Larry Flynt doesn’t want man who shot him executed

Porn publisher Larry Flynt says he doesn’t want to see the serial killer whose gunshots left him paralyzed 35 years ago put to death for his crimes.

From The Guardian

Larry Flynt urges clemency for Joseph Paul Franklin, the killer who shot him

In a spree of racially motivated violence across the US in the late 1970s, the Ku Klux Klan-affiliated gunman murdered as many as 20 people on a mission to “cleanse the world” of those he considered to be of inferior status.

From The Times

Larry Flynt calls for gunman who paralysed him to be spared execution

Larry Flynt, the US porn mogul, has made an impassioned plea to spare the life of the man who left him wheelchair bound.

From Sky News

Larry Flynt Against Death Penalty For His Shooter

The 71-year-old porn publisher, who was paralysed from the waist down in the 1978 attack and has been confined to a wheelchair ever since, said he wanted Joseph Paul Franklin to suffer but not die.