Frank Spisak

Frank G. Spisak Jr. (June 6, 1951 – February 17, 2011) was an American neo-Nazi serial killer and lone wolf terrorist who killed three people and attacked two from February to August 1982. Two of his victims were black, while one was white, Spisak having thought he was Jewish. He was a member of the neo-Nazi National Socialist White People's Party. In 1983, he was convicted of the murders and sentenced to death.

While in prison, he was in contact with neo-Nazi James Mason and was lionized by his newsletter SIEGE. He appealed his sentence repeatedly, with the United States Supreme Court finally ruling against him in 2010 in the decision Smith v. Spisak. Spisak was executed by lethal injection in 2011 after over 27 years spent on death row, a record for Ohio.

Early life Frank G. Spisak Jr. was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on June 6, 1951.

Neo-Nazism He was a member of the National Socialist White People's Party (NSWPP, previously the American Nazi Party). In 1970, he met fellow neo-Nazi James Mason at the party's bookstore in Cleveland in addition to party meetings at their headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. According to a neo-Nazi paper, Spisak was in 1975 criticized by the White Confederacy neo-Nazi group for claiming to still be an officer in an organization from which he was actually expelled.

At 22, he married a woman named Laverne and had a daughter, with Spisak working menially at a factory. His wife found his Nazism "off-putting", with Spisak often reading about Hitler in his spare time. Three years into their marriage, Spisak sustained a head injury in a car accident, which according to his wife resulted in increasingly bizarre behavior. Spisak's last meal consisted of spaghetti with tomato sauce, a salad, chocolate cake, and coffee.

Sheehan's family said of his execution that: "Today we chose to celebrate the life of husband and father, Timothy Sheehan, not the death of Frank Spisak ... We are grateful that the justice system has worked, and appreciate those in the criminal justice system whose diligent efforts have helped bring this matter to a final resolution."