A white supremacist convicted of killing James Byrd Jr. in 1998 by dragging the ...
- A white supremacist convicted of killing James Byrd Jr. in 1998 by dragging the 49-year-old black man behind a truck in one of the most notorious U.S. hate crimes of modern times was executed in Texas on Wednesday.
King, along with Shawn Berry and Lawrence Brewer, was accused of kidnapping Byrd while he hitchhiked in Jasper, Texas, on June 7, 1998. Byrd’s sister Carla Taylor read from a family statement after she, another of his sisters and his niece witnessed the execution.
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