Picture of the Day

A pathologist leaves the Jasper courthouse after graphic testimony in the dragging-death trial

By Melissa Ciano Tuesday, Feb. 23, 1999

John William King, who was convicted of murder on Tuesday, was one of three white men charged in the death of James Byrd Jr. last June. Dr. Brown testified that Byrd was alive for aproximately half of the three miles he was dragged behind a pickup truck along a rural East Texas road. He died after slamming into a culvert.