John William King, one of the men behind a notorious hate crime in the US, is put to death by lethal injection in Texas.
Clara Taylor, sister of James Byrd, who was killed in a racist crime by John William King
Louvon Byrd Harris, another of Mr Byrd's sisters, said earlier this month that the execution would send a"message to the world that when you do something horrible like that, that you have to pay the high penalty". King's co-defendant Lawrence Russell Brewer was executed in 2011, while the third man Shawn Allen Berry, was jailed for life.
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