A death penalty opponent picks up a battery-powered candle outside St. Francis Xavier Church during a vigil in protest of the scheduled execution of death row inmate Joseph Paul Franklin, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013, in St. Louis. A federal judge granted a stay of execution to Franklin on Tuesday, just hours before his scheduled death, citing concerns over a new execution method. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
(Reuters) - Missouri serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin was executed by lethal injection early Wednesday, according to local media reports, after the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for him to be put to death.
Franklin, 63, was pronounced dead at 6:17 a.m. CT at the Missouri Eastern Correctional Center in Bonne Terre, according to reports by KDSK TV in St. Louis. Officials with the Missouri Department of Corrections and Missouri Attorney General's Office did not return calls seeking confirmation.
(Reporting by Karen Brooks; Editing by Scott Malone)
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