White supremacist executed for killing black man by dragging him behind truck

Rattankun Thongbun/iStock(JASPER, Texas) — White supremacist John William King was executed on Wednesday, more than 20 years after he killed James Byrd Jr. in a horrifying hate crime. King was one of three white men convicted of murdering Byrd, who was black, on June 7, 1998, near Jasper, Texas. Byrd, a 49-year-old father of three, …

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