LARRY Flynt was left wheelchair-bound after he survived an assassination attempt on his life in 1978.
Flynt died on February 10, 2021, aged 78. But who shot the porn industry mogul in Georgia nearly 40 years earlier and why was he targeted?
Who shot Larry Flynt?
Flynt was targeted as he stood on the steps of a Georgia courthouse where he was fighting obscenity charges.
He was left paralyzed from the waist down following the attempt on his life by Joseph Paul Franklin.
Flynt was left with permanent spinal cord damage which left him in constant pain.
According to reports he was addicted to painkillers until multiple surgeries deadened the affected nerves.
Who was Joseph Paul Franklin?
Franklin was an American, self confessed white supremacist and serial killer.
He engaged in a murder spree that spanned the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Franklin was convicted of several murders and received six life sentences, as well as two death sentences.
He was found guilty of the murder of Gerald Gordon outside a synagogue in 1977.
Franklin was eventually charged in Missouri with eight unrelated counts of racially motivated murder between 1977 and 1980 and sentenced to death.
Franklin was executed by lethal injection on November 20, 2013.
Why did Joseph Paul Franklin shoot Larry Flynt?
Franklin was executed in November 2013 after murdering an interracial couple.
He admitted that he shot Flynt because of a spread Hustler ran that featured a black man and a white woman.
Franklin was not convicted in the case – but confessed to the shooting some years after the crimes had occurred.
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In October 2013, Flynt expressed his opposition to the death penalty and said he did not want Franklin to be executed.
He told the Hollywood Reporter: "I have every reason to be overjoyed with this decision, but I am not.
"I would love an hour in a room with him… so I could inflict the same damage on him that he inflicted on me. But, I do not want to… see him die."
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