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Murder of James Byrd Jr. James Byrd Jr. (May 2, 1949 – June 7, 1998) was an American Black man who was murdered by three white men, two of whom were avowed white supremacists, in Jasper, Texas, on June 7, 1998. Shawn Berry, Lawrence Brewer, and John King dragged him for three miles (five kilometers) behind a Ford pickup truck along an asphalt ...
Apr 25, 2019 · James Byrd Jr's killer executed for notorious 1998 hate crime. One of three men convicted for the murder in 1998 of James Byrd Jr, one of modern America's worst hate crimes, has been executed in ...
Sep 6, 2024 · Murder of James Byrd, Jr., killing of James Byrd, Jr., an African American man, on June 7, 1998, in the East Texas town of Jasper. Byrd was dragged to his death after being chained by the ankles to the back of a pickup truck by three white men (John William King, Lawrence Russell Brewer, and Shawn Allen Berry).
- Lorenzo M. Boyd
Apr 24, 2019 · Updated at 9 p.m. ET. Twenty-one years ago, in the east Texas town of Jasper, 49-year-old James Byrd Jr. was walking home late on a Saturday night when three white men in a pickup truck pulled up ...
- Wade Goodwyn
Apr 24, 2019 · CNN —. A man who helped carry out the dragging death of James Byrd Jr. – one of the most horrific hate crimes in modern American history – was executed by injection on Wednesday evening in a ...
Jun 2, 2021 · On a Saturday night in a small Texas town, three white men offered James Byrd Jr a ride home. The next morning, a little boy found Byrd's body. He'd been beaten, chained to the back of a truck and ...
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Sep 10, 2022 · The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act was attached as part of that fiscal year's defense bill, allowing for its passage after a decade's worth of stalling (per USA Today). The law took effect in early 2010 and provides funding for state, local, and tribal governments to investigate and prosecute suspected hate crimes.
