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A man who helped orchestrate one of the most horrific hate crimes in modern American history -- the dragging death of James Byrd Jr. in East Texas -- is slated to die Wednesday over the objections of some of Byrd's relatives.
Barring a last-minute stay, John William King, 44, will be the second person executed in Byrd's 1998 death. Lawrence Russell Brewer died by lethal injection in 2011. A third man, Shawn Berry, was sentenced to life in prison. James Byrd Jr.'s gravesite in Jasper, Texas, once required fencing to ward off vandals. While most murders are brutal, the viciousness of Byrd's killing shocked the world. NBA star Dennis Rodman came forward to pay for Byrd's funeral.
What it's like to watch a death penalty execution 03:47Berry then drove King and Brewer home, where they gave him a cooler of beer and a bottle of bourbon, King claimed. Berry left with Byrd, and King went to bed, he wrote. "That of which may have occurred afterwards, I cannot justifiably say," King wrote before pointing to Berry as the likely killer.
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