A white supremacist chained and dragged an African-American to death and will now be executed

A white supremacist will be executed this Wednesday in the state of Texas. Your crime: chain and drag with a car to death for an African American.

John William King, 44, is one of the three convicted of murder James Byrd in June 1998 and will receive the lethal injection at Huntsville Prison.

In 2011, another crime participant, Lawrence Brewer, was executed, while the third, Shawn Berry, he is serving a life sentence to cooperate with researchers.

Berry testified that, along with the other two, they drank beer and went out to party in a van. On the way, they met Byrd and told him that they could take him where he was going. They took him on an isolated road. The they beat him brutally and they chained him at the back of the vehicle.

Byrd was still alive when he was dragged on for about 3 kilometers. According to the medical examiners he suffered terribly and he beheaded when his head hit a concrete pipe.

Your dismembered body He was found in front of a church frequented by African-Americans in the small town of Jasper, Texas.

About 10 years later, the president of the time Barack Obama signed a law it has hardened the sentences for hate crimes and is named after Byrd and Matthew Shepard, a young homobadual murdered the same year.