John William 'Bill' King was sentenced to death in 1999 for killing James Byrd Jr by dragging the 49-year-old black man behind a truck.
The killing of James Byrd Jr in 1998 spurred the passing of legislation on hate crime.
John William “Bill” King, 44, was put to death by lethal injection and pronounced dead at 7.08pm at the state’s death chamber in Huntsville, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said in a statement. King, along with Shawn Berry and Lawrence Brewer, was accused of kidnapping Byrd while he hitchhiked in Jasper, Texas, on June 7, 1998.
Brewer, also a white supremacist, was executed in 2011. Berry was sentenced to life in prison for the crime.The gruesome killing spurred the passing of the James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Act, strengthening punishments for hate crimes in Texas. The murder, along with that of Matthew Shepard, a gay University of Wyoming student who was beaten and left to die tied to a fence, was also the genesis of the federal hate crimes prevention act passed in 2009.
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