The Jasper trial.(John William King tried for murder of African-American man)(Brief Article)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: February 20, 1999 | Copyright information

Thought those days had gone

JASPER, TEXAS

IN COURT he wears a plaid flannel shirt, concealing a tattoo of a black man hanging from a rope. Also hidden beneath the shirt of John William King is an electric shock belt, ready at any moment to deliver a non- lethal 50,000 volts to the kidneys of the accused killer. In Jasper, Texas, the police are taking no chances with a prisoner alleged to have dragged a disabled black man, James Byrd, three miles behind a pick-up truck to his death. Eight months after the killing that brought the Black Panthers and the Ku Klux Klan to a ...

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