An avowed white supremacist convicted of a notorious racist murder -- chaining a black man to the back of a pickup truck and dragging him to his death -- is to be executed on Wednesday in the US state of Texas.
John William King, 44, one of three men convicted of the brutal June 1998 killing of James Byrd Jr., filed a last-minute request to halt his execution with the Supreme Court.
King was one of three white men convicted of carrying out one of the most gruesome racist murders in recent US history. Berry testified during his trial that he and the two others were out drinking beer and cruising in a 1982 Ford pickup truck when they picked up Byrd, who was hitchhiking, and drove him to a remote country road.
Byrd was alive for some two miles while being dragged along the road, a pathologist testified during King's trial.Byrd's dismembered body was found outside a black church in the small town of Jasper, Texas, near the Texas-Louisiana border.
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