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Frank Spisak (pictured), a Nazi sympathizer who went out on "hunting parties" to target blacks, was put to death in Ohio this morning.
Spisak, 59, was convicted of murdering three people on the campus of Cleveland State University in 1982.
The victims, two of whom are black, were: Rev. Horace Rickerson, Timothy Sheehan and 17-year-old Brian Warford.
Spisak was executed by lethal injection and died at 10:34 a.m. this morning, making him the seventh person executed in the United States this year.
The Sheehan family issued a statement:
Today we chose to celebrate the life of husband and father, Timothy Sheehan, not the death of Frank Spisak," the statement read. "We are grateful that the justice system has worked, and appreciate those in the criminal justice system whose diligent efforts have helped bring this matter to a final resolution."
John Hardaway, who survived Spisak's attack, still has nightmares about that day:
"I can still see the night he was shooting me," Hardaway, 83, told Cleveland.com. "He was squatting down, pulling that trigger. That will never go away. It ain't as bad as it was, but it hits me hard sometimes. Why would he do a person like that?"
Spisak was in a world of his own.
He said he was out working for the survival of the "Aryan people." At his trial, he wore an Adolf Hitler-style mustache, carried copies of Hitler's autobiographical book ("Mein Kampf") and gave Nazi salutes to the jury.
His actions were disgraceful.
Of course, he pleaded guilty by reason of insanity, but Spisak was found to be competent at the time of the killing.
It's unclear if Spisak was mentally ill or not. He had a history of acting weird.
His actions, though, clearly show the corrosive nature of hate.
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