James Byrd Jr., who was Black, was 49 years old when he was slain by three white men in a racially-motivated killing on June 7, 1998 in Jasper, Texas ... Brewer and John William King—were ...

Inmates on death row in Texas ... three miles. John William King, Shawn Allen Berry, and Lawrence Russell Brewer had all spent time in prison for various convictions prior to the murder of Mr ...

JASPER, Tex. — On a June evening in 1998, three White men chained a Black man by his ankles to the back of a pickup truck and dragged him for several miles down a twisting country road in this ...

James Byrd Jr.'s brutal murder in Texas may seem reminiscent of the racially ... That night, Shawn Berry, 23; Lawrence Brewer, 31; and John Marshall King, 23, were driving around Jasper. King and ...

John William King, the second person executed in the 1998 murder of James Byrd Jr., was pronounced dead at 7:08 p.m. CDT on Wednesday. JASPER, TX – FEBRUARY 24: John William “Bill” King (L ...

The 49-year-old was killed on June 7, 1998 in Jasper, Texas by two avowed white supremacists ... Lawrence Brewer and John King — who offered him a ride home. After Byrd climbed into the bed ...

On This Date: In 1654, King ... death in Jasper, Texas. (Two white men were later sentenced to death; one of them, Lawrence Russell Brewer, was executed in 2011 and the other, John William King ...

AUSTIN — The Texas prison system ... read a statement from John William King, who was executed Wednesday for his part in the 1998 dragging death of James Byrd in Jasper, Texas.

A white supremacist executed in Texas for the appalling hate crime murder of a black man was ... But condemned inmates in Texas - including John William King, 44, who was executed Wednesday ...

John William King, 44, was one of three men convicted for the murder. He is the second person ... King was put to death at 7:08 p.m. (8:08 p.m. ET) at Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville.