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King, 44, was executed Wednesday by lethal injection and pronounced dead shortly after 7 p.m. local time Wednesday in a Hunstville, Texas prison. King and two other white men were convicted of murdering James Byrd, Jr. in the early morning hours of June 7, 1998 in Jasper. They beat Byrd, 49, chained him to the back of a pickup truck and dragged him for three miles down a logging road, tearing his body apart. |
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