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    Dahleen Glanton: Days after a racist killer was executed in Texas, bigotry rose again in California

    by Dahleen Glanton, Chicago Tribune Apr 30, 2019 3 minutes

    The last time I saw John William King, he was leaving a courtroom in Jasper, Texas, in handcuffs. It had taken a jury of 11 whites and one African-American just 2 1/2 hours to convict him of one of the most heinous hate crimes America had ever seen.

    King was 24 at the time, clean-cut with an engaging smile. He did not look like someone who could chain a man to the back of a pickup truck and drag him for nearly 3 miles, ripping the body into pieces scattered

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