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In May 2004, two white teens, Joshua Lee Talley and John Matthew Fowler, were arrested and charged with criminal mischief for desecrating James Byrd Jr.'s grave with racial slurs and profanities.
Apr 25, 2019 · One of three men convicted for the murder in 1998 of James Byrd Jr, one of modern America's worst hate crimes, has been executed in Texas. Byrd, a black man, was beaten, chained to a truck and...
Apr 24, 2019 · On Wednesday evening, John William King was executed at the Huntsville Prison in Huntsville, Texas, for his role in the gruesome and racist murder of James Byrd Jr. in the summer of 1998.
- Wade Goodwyn
Apr 24, 2019 · A man who helped carry out the dragging death of James Byrd Jr. – one of the most horrific hate crimes in modern American history – was executed by injection on Wednesday evening in a Texas prison....
May 31, 2024 · murder of James Byrd, Jr., killing of James Byrd, Jr., an African American man, on June 7, 1998, in the East Texas town of Jasper. Byrd was dragged to his death after being chained by the ankles to the back of a pickup truck by three white men— John William King, Lawrence Russell Brewer, and Shawn Allen Berry.
- Lorenzo M. Boyd
Apr 25, 2019 · 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 along...
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Apr 24, 2019 · John William King, 44, convicted two decades ago for killing James Byrd Jr. in an act of unfathomable racist brutality in the small town of Jasper, was put to death by the State of Texas on...
