For the past two decades, John William King has sat on death row in Texas, waiting to die for his part in an atrocious hate crime that shocked America. Now, finally, it is his time. This is the story of his victim.
“I had a lot of confidence in the DA system and the criminal justice system at that time,” Clara Taylor, Byrd Jr.’s sister, who sat in on all three trials, tells Newsweek. “King was the leader of a Klan group called ‘Confederate Knights of America—Texas Rebel Soldier Division’,” Guy James Gray, the former Jasper County district attorney who prosecuted King, tells Newsweek.
As Brown’s description shows, the term “dragging” neutralizes the depravity of what murder by this method really means for the victim. “I think I can probably remember all the details of evidence, of trials, of juries. Everything about it. It's just about as raw today as it was 20 years ago to me,” Gray says. “It was tremendously emotional.”
In September that year, Brewer also received the death penalty. He was executed by lethal injection on September 21, 2011. The most recent data is for 2017 when there were 2,458 victims of anti-black hate crime, or 48.5 percent of the total.Heidi Beirich, a director at the anti-hate group Southern Poverty Law Center and an expert on extremism, tells Newsweek that “anti-black hate crimes are always a large portion of the data, especially if you take into account the size of the black population in the U.S.”
But in the three years between Trump announcing his candidacy in 2015 and the end of his first year as president in 2017, the number of black victims is on the rise again. Thwarted, Bush is alleged to have walked to a nearby Kroger supermarket where he shot dead Maurice Stallard, 69, and Vickie Lee Jones, 67, who were both black. Former President Barack Obama greets then President-elect Donald Trump on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2017 in Washington, DC ahead of the inauguration ceremony. Alex Wong/Getty Images
“I think it encourages some of these fringe white supremacist-type groups to be more active. In general, I think the trend is going in the right direction, but the current tone in our politics is not helpful.”
Should’ve dragged him through town behind a pickup instead of letting him have KFC or whatever before a humane death.
casinodavila I remember this crime. This chapter finally has a ending.
Good riddance.
They though Black America would forget, we didn't!
Amazing how all these principled people who oppose the death penalty are suddenly okay with it when the crime sufficiently upsets them
Good! Took long enough but good nonetheless! Bye-bye bitch! 🖕
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