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The so-called leader of the three men who dragged a black man to his death behind a pickup in Jasper is slated for execution this week. Now, 44-year-old John William King faces lethal injection Wednesday night. Another defendant, Lawrence Russell Brewer, formerly of Sulphur Springs, was executed in 2011. The third participant, Shawn Allen Berry, was sentenced to life in prison.