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James Byrd Murder Case

Lawrence Russell Brewer has been executed for his involvement in the murder of James Byrd, who died while being dragged behind a truck in Texas 13 years ago.

Brewer and two other white men kidnapped the 49-year-old black man on the night of June 7, 1998. They chained him by the ankles to the back of a pickup truck and dragged him for 3½ miles down a country road near Jasper, Texas. Byrd was decapitated.

During his trial, Brewer tearfully contended that he was a bystander, not a killer. Ref. CNN.

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Texas executes white supremacist John William King, who was convicted in a gruesome 1998 hate crime. King, 44, was executed Wednesday by lethal injection and pronounced dead shortly after 7 p.m. Local time Wednesday in a Hunstville, Texas prison. King and two other white men were convicted of murdering James Byrd, Jr. In the early morning hours of June 7, 1998 in Jasper. They beat Byrd, 49, chained him to the back of a pickup truck and dragged him for three miles down a logging road, tearing his body apart. Source 6d.

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Now that took long for justice to be served but at least it was served. We don't need those kinds of people around spreading their hate and racism.