King’s death by lethal injection was a blessing compared to the one he and two other white men afforded the 49-year-old Byrd. They beat him, hooked a logging chain to him, then dragged him with a vehicle for a couple of miles.
I’m OK with King being dead. Given his crime, he was using oxygen that would have served society more favorably in the lungs of rats. The world is a better place for his departure.
Note: Come to think of it, the world would be a better place if most of us were suddenly to depart, but that’s a whole other column.