In a guest column for The Hollywood Reporter, Hustler founder and head honcho Larry Flynt addressed his thoughts on the death penalty and man who shot him, who is scheduled to be executed on Nov. 20, 2013.

Flynt was paralyzed from the waist down and confined to a wheel chair for the rest of his life after he was shot in the back on the steps of a Georgia courthouse on March 6, 1978. At the time Flynt was battling obscenity charges from his publications, and was targeted by a white supremacist who was offended at photos of an interracial couple published by Flynt. That man, Joseph Paul Franklin, was arrested years later for shooting and killing an interracial couple, and confessed to a slew of additional racially motived killings and assaults, including the shooting of Flynt.

Flynt writes:

“In all the years since the shooting, I have never come face-to-face with Franklin. I would love an hour in a room with him and a pair of wire-cutters and pliers, so I could inflict the same damage on him that he inflicted on me. But, I do not want to kill him, nor do I want to see him die.”

Larry Flynt and his brother Jimmy In Court, 1977

Flynt, named as one of the most powerful people in the pornography business, has been a very active member in legal disputes involving free speech and a government’s role within a free society, and uses the guest column as an opportunity to speak his mind clearly on how the death penalty is not a deterrent. He discusses the decision for Franklin’s death penalty:

“I have every reason to be overjoyed with this decision, but I am not. I have had many years in this wheelchair to think about this very topic. As I see it, the sole motivating factor behind the death penalty is vengeance, not justice, and I firmly believe that a government that forbids killing among its citizens should not be in the business of killing people itself.”

Flynt paved ways for the flourishing of adult content publications in the years after the attempted assassination on his life, taking cases all the way up to the supreme court, and even calling Supreme Court Judges “eight assholes and a token cunt” during a 1984 case. His court cases have led to pornography’s rise in pop culture and society’s acceptance of the adult industry culture.

Pornography can now be found everywhere, especially on the Internet.