

Miller's mug shot

A Kansas prosecutor said today that he will seek the death penalty against Frazier Glenn Miller, the longtime neo-Nazi and former Ku Klux Klan leader accused of killing three people last spring at two Jewish facilities in suburban Kansas City.

Johnson County District Attorney Steve Howe filed notice of his decision shortly after a judge ruled that Miller, who is 74 and suffering from lung disease that has put him in the jail infirmary for days at a time, is mentally competent to stand trial for the killing spree, according to the Kansas City Star.

Last month, around the time a Johnson County district judge was ordering the competency evaluation for Miller, the elderly white supremacis told the Star in a series of telephone interviews from jail that he was convinced he was dying at the time of the shootings and “wanted to make damned sure I killed some Jews or attacked the Jews before I died.”

None of the three people killed on that bloody Sunday in April – Terri LaManno, 53, William Lewis Corporon, 69 and Corporon’s 14-year-old grandson, Reat Griffin Underwood – was Jewish.

Miller told the paper that he went to Jewish facilities in Overland Park, Kan. – a community center and a care center – “for the specific purpose of killing Jews.”

“Because of what I did, Jews feel less secure,” he boasted to the paper. “Every Jew in the world knows my name now and what I did. As for these white people who are accomplices of the Jews, who attend their meetings and contribute efforts to empower the Jews, they are my enemy, too. A lot of white people who associate with Jews, go to Jewish events and support them know that they’re not safe either, thanks to me.”

Corporon and his young grandson were shot outside the Jewish Community Center, where the boy was scheduled to audition for a singing contest with scores of other teenagers.

Miller told the paper that as he drove away from the center, “I have never felt such exhilaration. …Finally, I’d done something.”

Miller said he then drove to the Village Shalom care center, where LaManno was killed just outside the facility. LaManno was there to visit her elderly mother.

“After I shot her,” Miller told the Star, “another woman came right behind the woman’s vehicle that I’d just shot. Right behind it, 15 feet from me. …I had the shotgun pointed at her head from about 12 feet. I said, ‘Are you a Jew?’ She said, ‘What?’ By the second time, she knew why I was asking. She screamed, ‘No.’ So, I let her live.”

After the killing spree and his arrest, Miller sat handcuffed in the back of the police car and shouted through the mental mesh covering the back window, “Heil Hitler.”

In court today, after filing a notice with the court that prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against Miller, the District Attorney placed a copy of the notice in front of Miller, who was dressed in a stripped inmate uniform and sitting in a wheelchair at the defense table but looking much healthier than in past court appearances.

“I don’t fear the death penalty,” Miller said, according to the Star. “I’m already dying.”