HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- The man sentenced to death for one of the most gruesome murders in modern American history showed no remorse before his execution. John William King was executed by the Texas ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — It’s been more than two decades since an infamous hate crime in East Texas, where three white men were convicted of chaining a black man to the back of a pickup truck, dragging him ...

A man who helped carry out the dragging death of James Byrd Jr. — one of the most horrific hate crimes in modern American history — was executed by injection on Wednesday evening in a Texas prison.

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — An avowed racist who orchestrated one of the most gruesome hate crimes in U.S. history has been executed in Texas for the dragging death of a black man. John William King, who was ...

A Texas man is set to be executed Wednesday night for his part in the dragging death of a black man more than two decades ago in the East Texas town of Jasper, according to the Texas Tribune. John ...