April 24 (UPI) -- One of three men convicted in the racially motivated dragging death of a black man in Texas two decades ago died by lethal injection Wednesday night.
John William King was the second person executed for the death of James Byrd Jr., for an attack considered by many one of the most infamous hate crimes in U.S. history. Accomplice Lawrence Brewer was put to death in 2011 and the other, Shawn Berry, is serving a life sentence.