One of three white men condemned for the June 1998 dragging death of a black man in Texas will be executed next spring.
John William King will face lethal injection on April 24, 2019 at 6pm after District Judge Craig Mixson signed the execution order on Friday.
In October, the US Supreme Court denied King's appeal, which suggested he had ineffective lawyers during his capital murder trial.
King - along with Lawrence Russell Brewer and Shawn Berry - was convicted in 1999 for killing of James Byrd Jr in Jasper, which is about 125 miles northeast of Houston.
John William King (left in 2018 and right in 1998) will be executed next spring for his role in the 1998 dragging death of a black man in Texas. King will face lethal injection in April 24, 2019 at 6pm after the US Supreme Court rejected an appeal from him in October
King - along with Lawrence Russell Brewer and Shawn Berry - was convicted in the June 1998 death of James Byrd Jr (pictured) who thought he was accepting a ride home when he got into the truck with the three men
On June 7, Byrd accepted a ride home from Berry, whom he was acquainted with.
King and Brewer were also in the truck.
The three men drove Byrd to a deserted road where they severely beat him, urinated and defecated on him and chained him to the pickup truck by his ankles.
They then preceded to drag him for three miles. Byrd was alive for the majority of the dragging.
He died about halfway through after his body hit a culvert, which severed his right arm and head, CNN reported at the time.
Byrd's remains were dumped in front of an African-American church before the men drove off to a barbecue, according to the Texas Observer.
A great deal of evidence placed the men along the road Byrd was dragged on including a wrench with 'Berry written on it' and a lighter that was inscribed with 'Possum', which was King's nickname in prison.
Berry, Brewer, and King dumped the mutilated remains of the body in front of an African-American church on Huff Creek Road, then drove off to a barbecue.
The three men drove Byrd to a deserted road where they severely beat him, urinated and defecated on him and chained him to the pickup truck (pictured) by his ankles. They dragged him for three miles. Byrd died when his body hit a culvert, severing his right arm and head
Berry, Brewer, and King dumped the mutilated remains of the body in front of an African-American church on Huff Creek Road, then drove off to a barbecue. Pictured: Several of King's racist tattoos
King in particular has several racist tattoos which include Nazi symbols, a black man hanging from a tree, the words 'Aryan Pride' and the symbol for the Confederate Knights of America
King in particular has several racist tattoos which include Nazi symbols, a black man hanging from a tree, the words 'Aryan Pride' and the symbol for the Confederate Knights of America (a prison gang in Texas that affiliated with the KKK and the Aryan Brotherhood).
He claimed during his trial that he had been gang-raped by several black inmates during a prior sentence.
Both King and Brewer were sentenced to death while Berry was given life in prison.
Brewer, 44, was executed in September 2011 in the Huntsville Unit Prison after exhausting his appeals.
For his last meal he ordered: two chicken-fried steaks smothered in gravy with sliced onions; a triple-patty bacon cheeseburger; a cheese omelet with ground beef, tomatoes, onions, bell peppers and jalapeños; a bowl of fried okra with ketchup; one pound of barbecued meat with half a loaf of white bread; three fully loaded fajitas; a meat-lover's pizza; one pint of Blue Bell vanilla Ice Cream; a slab of peanut-butter fudge with crushed peanuts; and three root beers.
When prison officials presented him with the meal, he said he wasn't hungry and didn't eat any of it. The meal was subsequently discarded.
State Senator John Whitmire, a Houston Democrat, was outraged and penned a letter to the prison agency's executive director, Brad Livingston, asking for the practice of last meals to end.
Within hours, Livingston replied that the practice was terminated efffectively immediately, reported The New York Times.
Death row inmates now receive a last meal that is the same meal other inmates receive in the chow line.
Brewer, 44, was executed in September 2011 in the Huntsville Unit Prison after exhausting his appeals. He ordered a lavish meal but ate none of it. Texas now no longer serves last meals to inmates on death row. Pictured: Brewer in 1998, left, and in 2011, right
Berry, 42, is currently serving life in prison and will be eligible for parole in 2038. He currently spends 23 hours a day in an eight-by-six-foot cell and is allowed out for an hour for exercise. Pictured: Berry in 1998, left, and right, undated
Berry, 42, is currently serving life in prison and will be eligible for parole in 2038.
He currently spends 23 hours a day in an eight-by-six-foot cell in the Ramsey Unit at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
Berry is allowed outside one hour a day for exercise.
In 2001, then-Governor Rick Perry signed into Texas state law the James Byrd Jr Hate Crimes Act.
In 2009, the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act was signed into federal law by then-President Barack Obama.
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Main photo article One of three white men condemned for the June 1998 dragging death of a black man in Texas will be executed next spring.
John William King will face lethal injection on April 24, 2019 at 6pm after District Judge Craig Mixson signed the execution order on Friday.
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