04-26-2019, 06:43 PM
Good riddance. I don't like the death penalty, but this fellow is one of the most deserving.
Prior Occupation
carpenter, laborer
Prior Prison Record
TDCJ-ID #624420, 10-year sentence for one count of Burglary; 7/28/97 released on Parole to Orange County
Summary of Incident
On 06/07/98, during the nighttime hours, the subject and co-defendants, Lawrence Brewer and Shawn Allen Berry, murdered James Byrd Jr., a 49-year old black male, by dragging the victim behind their 1982 gray Ford pickup truck, located on Huff Creek Road, in Jasper, Texas. The subject and the co-defendants picked the victim up while he was hitchhiking in Jasper.
Co-Defendants
Berry, Shawn; Brewer, Lawrence Russell
Race and Gender of Victim
Black male
Name
King, John William
TDCJ Number
999295
Date of Birth
11/03/1974
Date Received
02/25/1999
Age (when Received)
24
Education Level (Highest Grade Completed)
10
Date of Offense
06/07/1998
Age (at the time of Offense)
23
County
Jasper
Race
White
Gender
Male
Hair Color
Brown
Height
5' 9"
Weight
198
Eye Color
Brown
Native County
Atlanta
Native State
Georgia
https://www.tdcj.texas.gov/death_row/dr_...gjohn.html
...Lawrence Brewer, a co-defendant also convicted in the dragging death of James Byrd, was executed in 2011.
Prior Occupation
carpenter, laborer
Prior Prison Record
TDCJ-ID #624420, 10-year sentence for one count of Burglary; 7/28/97 released on Parole to Orange County
Summary of Incident
On 06/07/98, during the nighttime hours, the subject and co-defendants, Lawrence Brewer and Shawn Allen Berry, murdered James Byrd Jr., a 49-year old black male, by dragging the victim behind their 1982 gray Ford pickup truck, located on Huff Creek Road, in Jasper, Texas. The subject and the co-defendants picked the victim up while he was hitchhiking in Jasper.
Co-Defendants
Berry, Shawn; Brewer, Lawrence Russell
Race and Gender of Victim
Black male
Name
King, John William
TDCJ Number
999295
Date of Birth
11/03/1974
Date Received
02/25/1999
Age (when Received)
24
Education Level (Highest Grade Completed)
10
Date of Offense
06/07/1998
Age (at the time of Offense)
23
County
Jasper
Race
White
Gender
Male
Hair Color
Brown
Height
5' 9"
Weight
198
Eye Color
Brown
Native County
Atlanta
Native State
Georgia
https://www.tdcj.texas.gov/death_row/dr_...gjohn.html
...Lawrence Brewer, a co-defendant also convicted in the dragging death of James Byrd, was executed in 2011.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.