A judge in Kansas on Tuesday sentenced a self-proclaimed white supremacist to death for killing three people outside two Jewish centers a year ago.
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Frazier Glenn Miller Jr. was convicted in August of capital murder, attempted murder and other charges. Johnson County District Court judge sentenced Frazier Glenn Cross, 74, to die by lethal injection. Several relatives of the murder victims sat in the front rows of the courtroom when the jury announced its verdict at the trial.
He said he was motivated to kill Jews before he died because he believes they have too much power.
“I sense that there is humanity in you”, she said. “I’m a happy man”.
Will Corporon, son of William Corporon, glared at Cross, an army veteran, as he talked.
Miller was also sentenced to a combined 394 months on three counts of attempted first-degree murder, aggravated assault and discharging a firearm into an occupied building, the Kansas City Star reported.
He has chronic emphysema and has said he doesn’t think he has long to live.
During her statement, Melinda Corporon, wife to William and grandmother to Reat, recounted a busy Sunday where everyone had a job.
Miller, also called Frazier Glenn Cross, represented himself during the trial. Including multiple members of the Corporon and LaManno families, who spoke of their loved ones William, Reat and Terri. “I hate Jews. I want to kill Jews”.
The Southern Poverty Law Center tracks a few 1,600 extremist groups in the U.S. Among the most active and powerful white supremacist groups are Christian Identity, in addition to neo-Nazi, racist skinhead, and white nationalist groups.
Kansas restored the death penalty in 1994, but no one has been executed in the state since 1965.
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On Friday, the court upheld a death sentence for the first time, in the case of a convicted serial killer who investigators said lured a few victims with promises of work or sex and stuffed a few of their bodies in barrels on his rural property.
