Posted on 04/24/2019 7:10:03 PM PDT by NRx
John William King, 44, convicted two decades ago for killing James Byrd Jr. in an act of unfathomable racist brutality in the small town of Jasper, was put to death by the State of Texas on Wednesday night with a dose of pentobarbital.
The execution, carried out at the state’s death chamber in Huntsville, came after the United States Supreme Court turned down Mr. King’s last petition for a stay. He was pronounced dead at 7:08 p.m., said Jeremy Desel, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
Mr. King kept his eyes closed as witnesses arrived to the execution chamber on Wednesday, The Associated Press reported. When the prison warden, Bill Lewis, asked him if he had any final words, Mr. King said, “No.”
Mr. King made a final statement issued in writing, Mr. Desel said. “Capital Punishment: Them without the capital get the punishment,” it said.
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I wonder if the typical people who oppose the Death Penalty decided to take the day off?
Too bad it took over twenty years to carry out the death sentence.
Too bad it took over twenty years to carry out the death sentence.
“Them without the capital get the punishment,”
Like this piece of crap didn’t have well over a million dollars expended on his worthless ass by the taxpayers of Texas.
Good bye and good riddance.
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Next!
And just think Bernie would let this guy who dragged a man behind his truck until he died vote.
I am glad he was executed and hope he burns in hell.
WHY?!!?!?!
Hell has been kept waiting for that murderous creep for two decades.
No worries, Bernie et al, will make sure he still gets to vote, post mortem.
They are all in it....LIC..
Lawyer Industrial Complex....
No wonder most in D.C. are lawyers..
Were all the lefty anti capital punishment protestors outside the prison as usual decrying the use of the this racist tool of oppression, as usual?
Yeah I didn’t think so.
Prison gardens need mulch. Grind him up.
About damn time
He's not wrong, though. Think anyone will ever pay for the murder of Seth Rich?
but no hate crime legislation .
“Think anyone will ever pay for the murder of Seth Rich?”
In this life or the next?
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“Capital Punishment: Them without the capital get the punishment,”
Spoken like a true leftist.
Deserves being drawn and quartered
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