A white supremacist who dragged his victim behind a pickup truck is scheduled to be executed on Wednesday in the US state of Texas.
John William King, 44, one of three men convicted of the June 1998 killing of James Byrd, is to die by lethal injection at the Huntsville penitentiary.
Berry testified during his trial that he and the two others were out drinking beer and cruising in a truck when he picked up Byrd and drove him to a remote country road.Byrd was still alive while being dragged along a paved road for some two miles and suffered great pain until he was decapitated when his body hit a concrete drain pipe along the side of the road, a pathologist testified during King’s trial.
But a psychiatrist for the prosecution said the viciousness of the crime “removed all doubt” that death was the appropriate punishment.
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