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John King

Texas Death Row

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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.

Source: Texas Department of Criminal Justice

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