Texas executes white supremacist for 1998 dragging death of James Byrd Jr.

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The man, who referred to himself an "avowed racist," was responsible for orchestrating one of the most gruesome hate crimes in recent US history. He was pronounced dead at 7:08 pm. King was sentenced to death for chaining Byrd to the back of a truck and dragging his body along a rural road in Jasper County.  Prosecutors said Byrd was targeted because he was black.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Byrd_Jr.

 

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Lawrence Brewer

Lawrence Russell Brewer (March 13, 1967 – September 21, 2011) was a white supremacist, who prior to Byrd's murder, had served a prison sentence for drug possession and burglary. He was paroled in 1991. After violating his parole conditions in 1994, Brewer was returned to prison. According to his court testimony, he joined a white supremacist prison gang with King in order to safeguard himself from other inmates.^[25] Brewer and King became friends in the Beto Unit prison.^[6] A psychiatrist testified that Brewer did not appear repentant for his crimes. Brewer was ultimately convicted and sentenced to death.^[26] Brewer, TDCJ#999327,^[27] was on death row at the Polunsky Unit,^[6] but he was executed in the Huntsville Unit on September 21, 2011.^[28] The day before his execution, Brewer expressed no remorse for his crime, as he told KHOU 11 News in Houston: "As far as any regrets, no, I have no regrets. No, I'd do it all over again, to tell you the truth."^[29]

Before his execution, Brewer ordered a last meal that included two chicken-fried steaks smothered in gravy with sliced onions; a triple-patty bacon cheeseburger; a cheese omelet with ground beef, tomatoes, onions, bell peppers and jalapeños; a bowl of fried okra with ketchup; one pound of barbecued meat with half a loaf of white bread; three fully loaded fajitas; a meat-lover's pizza; one pint of Blue Bell vanilla ice cream; a slab of peanut-butter fudge with crushed peanuts; and three root beers. When the meal was presented, he told officials that he was not hungry and as a result he did not eat any of it. The meal was discarded, prompting State Senator John Whitmire to ask Texas prison officials to end the 87-year-old tradition of giving last meals to condemned inmates. The prison agency's executive director responded by stating that the practice had been terminated effective immediately.^[30]

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John King

John William "Bill"^[31] King (November 3, 1974 – April 24, 2019) was Berry's longtime friend.^[17] He was accused of beating Byrd with a bat and then dragging him behind a pickup truck until he died. King, who prior to the murder had recently been released from a Texas prison, said that he had been repeatedly gang raped in prison by black inmates.^[32] He was found guilty and sentenced to death for his role in Byrd's kidnapping and murder, and was on death row at the Polunsky Unit.^[6]

On December 21, 2018, King's execution by lethal injection was scheduled for April 24, 2019.^[7] On April 22, 2019, his appeals to both the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles were denied.^[33][34] He was executed at the Huntsville Unit on the evening of April 24, 2019.^[35]