Prison Photo
Texas Death Row Inmate John King
On June 7, 1998, during the nighttime hours in Jasper, Texas, King and codefendants, Lawrence Brewer and Shawn Allen Berry, murdered James Byrd Jr., a 49-year-old black man, by dragging the victim behind their 1982 gray Ford pickup truck. King and the codefendants picked the victim up while he was hitchhiking.