Texas Executes White Supremacist for 1998 Dragging Death of James Byrd Jr.

[JPF]

The article said the other guy was executed in 2011. I wonder what took so long to off this idiot.

2011 was still way too long IMHO

[JPF]

It's the damned appeals process and attorneys getting fat off of the legal fees. This needs to be streamlined and just for the record? I believe the DP should be applied equitably and justly. With the advent of new DNA and surveillance technology, this should be utilized more in capital murder cases to remove any possible doubt. Reasonable or not.

What do you mean?

[USFREEDOM911]

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.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/u...liam-king.html

He should have been executed, by being chained to the back of a truck and then dragged for 3 miles.

[USFREEDOM911]

I'm VERY anti-death penalty--this case is an example of the idiocy in which we have this penalty.

But if we're going to have one, this is the sort of person we need to break it out for.

What I would recommend is that states with the death penalty get to have a 3 judge panel that hears death penalties from those states. The judges have 90 days from sentencing to review the case. If they can find no reason to overturn the sentence, at 90 days, you're eligible to be executed by the State. They can do it at the 90:00:00:01 mark or they can wait until it's convenient for the warden, witnesses, families, etc...

There are no appeals. The reviews are automatic (just like a scoring play in football)...3 judges, 90 days. A 3-0 or 2-1 vote and that's that.

It is ridiculous that some people spend longer on death row than they did prior to murdering someone.

I've been advocating a similar idea, for years.

This new Court would hear nothing but death row appeals and we also need to do 2 more things.

1 - Stop sanitizing the criminals death and bring back public hangings and/or firing squads.

2 - It should be televised. Let people request the site, for free, and show what happens when you criminally take the life of someone else.

[USFREEDOM911]

The article said the other guy was executed in 2011. I wonder what took so long to off this idiot.

Appeals, appeals, appeals, and oh yeah; appeals.

[USFREEDOM911]

Especially since the getaway car driver is considered equally culpable to the rest of the gang in bank robbery cases.

I believed he "flipped" on the other two, for the plea agreement of a life sentence.