0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed Human.
0:05.9	Cool Zone Media.
0:11.9	In the early morning hours of November 20, 2013,
0:17.2	Joseph Paul Franklin's luck ran out.
0:20.4	After three decades in prison, half of which he'd spent on death row,
0:25.7	he spent his final months in a flurry of appeals.
0:29.7	There were, after all, legitimate, legal, ethical, and logistical questions
0:34.9	about what the state of Missouri was putting in that needle.
0:39.2	On the afternoon of November 19th, just hours before Franklin was scheduled to die,
0:45.5	a federal judge granted him a stay of execution, ruling that the lawsuit over the drug cocktail
0:50.7	should be resolved first. The man who'd executed more than 20 people seemed to have, metaphorically at least, dodged a bullet.
1:02.0	He was relieved.
1:04.3	He spent that evening on the phone.
1:06.9	He talked to his lawyers, one of his sisters, and an old friend.
1:11.9	He didn't even bother ordering a last meal.
1:15.1	He wasn't going to die after all.
1:18.3	As he lay in his cot that night, celebrating his good luck,
1:22.4	a small army of lawyers typed furiously,
1:25.5	exchanging filings in a frantic legal battle that lasted all afternoon
1:29.0	and late into the night. At 1 a.m., the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed this day. The execution
1:36.7	was back on. At 3 a.m., they refused to reconsider. An hour later, Franklin's attorneys got the issue into Justice Samuel Alito's hands.
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