White supremacist executed in Texas for dragging death of black man

A white supremacist convicted of killing James Byrd Jr. in 1998 by dragging the 49-year-old black man behind a truck in one of the most notorious U.S. hate crimes of modern times was executed in Texas on Wednesday. John William “Bill” King, 44, was put to death by lethal injection and pronounced dead at 7:08 pm. (0008 GMT Thursday) at the state’s death chamber in Huntsville, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said in a statement. The department said King wrote the last statement that read: “Capital Punishment: They without the capital get the punishment.”

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