He also talked about initiating new members by having them kidnap and murder black people, court documents showed.
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.
Byrd's sister Carla Taylor read from a family statement after she, another of his sisters and his niece witnessed the execution. King's"execution tonight was just punishment for his actions," she said, noting that Byrd had three children and four grandchildren."James' legacy continues to be of peace and nonviolence."
King was found guilty of capital murder and sentenced to death in 1999. He was a member of a white supremacist gang and spoke of starting a race war while in prison for a previous crime. King was the third inmate in Texas and the fourth in the United States to be executed in 2019, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
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