Whatchur prob, Tx? For 20 yrs, the ppl of Tx has had to feed, clothe, and house this monster, including the family of his victim. TWENTY. YEARS. Twenty years on death row. May he truly repent, and turn from his own way, ask God for forgiveness and receive Jesus as his savior, but TEXAS, YOUR GOD-GIVEN DUTY AS GOVERNMENT IS TO EXACT JUSTICE. YOU ARE TOO SLOW. YOU HAVE FAILED THE PPL OF TEXAS.

Execution date looms for Jasper dragging-death killer

One of the most painful chapters in Southeast Texas history moved closer to resolution on Friday when a judge in Jasper County signed the execution warrant for the last of three white men convicted in the dragging death of a black man on a country road there 20 years ago.

John William King, whose latest round of appeals was denied by the U.S. Supreme Court in late October, now faces execution by injection on April 24.

King, a 44-year-old Georgia native, was convicted of capital murder for the racist slaying of of James Byrd Jr. in June 1998. He has been on death row at the Polunsky Unit in Livingston since Feb. 25, 1999.

Two other men, Shawn Berry and Lawrence Russell Brewer, were convicted in the case. Berry is serving a life sentence; Brewer was executed in 2011.

The three men chained Byrd, 49, by his ankles to the bumper of a pickup and dragged him three miles on an old logging road on the outskirts of Jasper.

https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Execution-warrant-signed-for-Jasper-man-convicted-13484973.php