White Supremacist Sentenced to Death for Murders

Frazier Glenn Cross during his murder trial in the Johnson
County District Court, Kansas. Photo: REUTERS/Allison Long.

Last year, Frazier Glenn Cross, 74, shot and killed three people in Overland Park, Kansas. Reat Underwood, 14, and his grandfather Willian Corporon, 69, were outside of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City, while Terri LaMano, 53, was outside of a Jewish retirement home. He also wounded another three people at those locations.

Cross stated that he shot them because he wanted to kill Jewish people, because he believed they control the media, finance, and the government, and are destroying the white race. None of his victims were Jewish.

Cross served in the military and at some point became a radical white supremacist, having been a senior member of the Ku Klux Klan and even giving the famous Nazi salute after his sentence was announced.

That sentence was death. Kansas has not sentenced anyone to death since 1965, but reinstated the death penalty in 1994. Johnson County District Court Judge Thomas Kelly Ryan sentenced Cross to die by lethal injection after he was found guilty of three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder, with the jury suggesting the death penalty be applied.

During the trial Cross said that he should have been released because he was justified in killing Jews. He said he was sorry that the people he killed weren’t Jews, but that it was their own fault for associating with Jewish people. He maintains that one day his spirit “will rise from the grave” and we’ll all know that he was right about the Jewish people. He said that he was a happy man, and considers himself a patriot.

As Cross is already 74 and in a wheelchair, the effectiveness of sentencing him to death remains to be seen. If the courts do not expedite his execution, he may simply die in prison.