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US white supremacist who lynched black man is executed

John William King (C) is pictured in 1999 after being sentenced to death for the brutal murder of a black man. [AFP]

An avowed white supremacist convicted of a notorious racist murder -- chaining a black man to the back of a pickup truck and dragging him to his death -- was executed on Wednesday in the US state of Texas.

John William King, 44, was put to death by lethal injection at 7:08 pm Central Time (0008 GMT Thursday) at the Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas.

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