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John William Byrd Jr. (December 18, 1963 – February 19, 2002) was an American murderer who was executed by lethal injection for killing convenience store clerk Monte Tewksbury. Byrd, who protested his innocence until his execution, spent 18 years and 6 months on Ohio's death row.
Date of execution County Method Victim(s) Governor 1 Wilford Berry Jr. White 36 M February 19, 1999 Cuyahoga: Lethal injection: Charles Mitroff Bob Taft: 2 Jay D. Scott: Black 48 M June 14, 2001 Vinnie M. Price 3 John William Byrd Jr. White 38 M February 19, 2002 Hamilton: Monte Tewksbury 4 Alton Coleman: Black 46 M April 26, 2002
John William Byrd Jr. 38 19 19 White Ohio [13] 12 February 28, 2002 Monty Allen Delk: 35 16 Texas [14] 13 March 6, 2002 Jeffrey Lane Tokar: 37 27 10 Missouri [15] 14 March 7, 2002 Gerald Wayne Tigner Jr. 29 20 9 Black Texas [16] 15 March 12, 2002 Tracy Lee Housel: 43 26 17 White Georgia [17] 16 March 14, 2002 James Earl Patterson: 35 19 16 ...
John William Byrd Jr. 1963 2002 38 American Ohio Murder [30] Genaro Ruiz Camacho: 1954 1998 43 American Texas Murder [30] Ivan Cantu: 1973 2024 50 American Texas Murder (2 counts) [60] Ruben Cantu: 1966 2003 26 American Texas Murder [30] Scott Carpenter: 1975 1997 22 American Oklahoma Murder [30] Desmond Keith Carter: 1967 2002 35 American ...
William Byrd (/ b ɜːr d /; c. 1540 – 4 July 1623) was an English Renaissance composer. Considered among the greatest composers of the Renaissance, he had a profound influence on composers both from his native country and on the Continent. [1]
John William King orchestrated one of the most gruesome hate crimes in U.S. history when he and two others killed James Byrd Jr. nearly 21 years ago.
James Byrd Jr. was born on May 2, 1949, [11] in Beaumont, Texas, [12] the third of nine children, to Stella Mae Sharp and James Byrd Sr. [13] His mother was a Sunday School teacher and his father was a deacon at the Greater New Bethel Church. Byrd graduated from Jasper Rowe High School in 1967, the last segregated class. After graduating from ...
On October 14, 1985, Scott and several other inmates, including death row inmates William G. Zuern Jr. and John William Byrd Jr., took two guards hostage at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility. The prisoners demanded that they receive free deodorant, access to televisions and radios, more desserts, and transfers to the Franklin County Jail.