Following the recommendation of a jury, a judge sentenced Frazier Glenn Miller Jr., an avowed white supremacist, to death Tuesday for the fatal shootings of three people at Kansas Jewish sites.
Johnson County District Judge Thomas Kelly Ryan imposed the sentence for Miller, who was convicted in August of one count of capital murder, three counts of attempted murder, and assault and weapons charges for the April 2014 shootings in suburban Kansas City, according to the Associated Press.
The jury that convicted him had recommended that Miller be sentenced to death, and on Tuesday, Ryan followed that recommendation and ordered the death penalty.
Miller killed William Corporon, 69, and Corporon's 14-year-old grandson, Reat Griffin Underwood, at the Jewish Community Center in Overland Park, Kan. He later fatally shot 53-year-old Terri LaManno at the nearby Village Shalom retirement center.
Miller, 74, is an avowed white supremacist who founded the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina after returning home from Vietnam where had served during the war, reported NBC News. He also ran for the U.S. House in 2006, and later Senate in 2010 in Missouri, espousing a white-power platform both times.
He admitted to killing all three of his victims, saying he did so because he wanted to kill Jews before he died and believes they have too much power. As it turns out, all three of his victims weren't Jewish - but Christian.
Miller represented himself during the trial and was quite defiant while doing so, reported the BBC. He told jurors he "knew" they were going to put him on death row, and he didn't care what sentence he would receive.
Miller responded to his sentence by shouting "heil Hitler," before being removed from the courtroom.
