It certainly is not a good one. He grew a small mustache. He carried Mein Kampf with him at counsel table. He saluted the jury like an SS soldier. And he was convicted of going on what he called "hunting parties" for Afro American people.
The state doesnt want you to know the rest of the story. How Frank was never the same after a car accident. How he dressed like a woman. How he began to collect Nazi memorabilia and blame others for his problems. A very mentally ill man did those things, not a cold calculated killer. There is a difference.
It is difficult for most to look beyond his facade of a Nazi sympathizer. Underneath was a confused man who didnt know if he was man or woman. A person who thought that his answers lay in the twisted theology of the Third Reich. Whose plan was as twisted as those ideas.
We want our killers to be bloodthirsty animals like Doctor Lechter in the movies. They are not. When they are mentally ill they are responding to the illness not any external forces. Instead of understanding mental illness and how it effects criminality our system punishes for not treating the mental illness.
Frank I hope that death provides the peace your life did not.
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