![]() (AP Photo/Juan Lozano)Īs witnesses emerged from the prison, about two dozen people standing down the street began to cheer. was the victim of what is considered to be one of the most gruesome hate crime murders in recent Texas history. In this Wednesday, April 10, 2019, photo Mylinda Byrd Washington, 66, left, and Louvon Byrd Harris, 61, hold up photographs of their brother James Byrd Jr. "I felt nothing - no sense of relief, no sense of happy this is over with." "The execution for his crime was just punishment," she said. In a statement released after his execution, King said: "Capital punishment: them without the capital get the punishment."īyrd's sister, Clara Taylor, who watched King die, said he "showed no remorse then and showed no remorse tonight." He took a few barely audible breaths and had no other movement. Within seconds, the lethal dose of the sedative pentobarbital began taking effect. Asked by Warden Bill Lewis if he had a final statement, King replied: "No." King kept his eyes closed as witnesses arrived in the death chamber and never turned his head toward relatives of his victim. and the third in Texas, the nation's busiest capital punishment state. ![]() He was the fourth inmate executed this year in the U.S. King, 44, was put to death at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas. King was openly racist and had offensive tattoos on his body, including one of a black man with a noose around his neck hanging from a tree, according to authorities. Prosecutors said Byrd was targeted because he was black. The 49-year-old Byrd was alive for at least 2 miles before his body was ripped to pieces in the early morning hours of June 7, 1998. John William King, who was white, received a lethal injection for the slaying nearly 21 years ago of James Byrd Jr., who was chained to the back of a truck and dragged for nearly 3 miles along a secluded road in the piney woods outside Jasper, Texas. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP) John William King received a lethal injection Wednesday evening, April 24, 2019. history was executed Wednesday in Texas for the dragging death of a black man. He was the fourth inmate executed this year in the US and the third in Texas, the nation's busiest capital punishment state.HUNTSVILLE, Texas - An avowed racist who orchestrated one of the most gruesome hate crimes in U.S. ![]() The 49-year-old Byrd was alive for at least 2 miles (3 kilometers) before his body was ripped to pieces in the early morning hours of June 7, 1998. John William King, who was white, received lethal injection for the slaying nearly 21 years ago of James Byrd Jr., who was chained to the back of a truck and dragged for nearly 3 miles (5 kilometers) along a secluded road in the piney woods outside Jasper, Texas. ![]() HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - An avowed racist who orchestrated one of the most gruesome hate crimes in US history was executed Wednesday in Texas for the dragging death of a black man. ![]() Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. ![]()
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