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Murder of James Byrd Jr. James Byrd Jr. (May 2, 1949 – June 7, 1998) was an African American 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 ...
April 24 (Reuters) - A white supremacist convicted of killing James Byrd Jr. in 1998 by dragging the 49-year-old black man behind a truck in one of the most notorious U.S. hate crimes of modern ...
James Byrd comment. On February 24, 1999, after a year at WARW (now WIAD), Tracht made a comment about James Byrd Jr., who was murdered in 1998 by being dragged behind a pickup truck by three white men, two determined to be white supremacists. The day before, jurors had convicted John William King of Byrd's murder.
The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act is a landmark United States federal law, passed on October 22, 2009, [1] and signed into law by President Barack Obama on October 28, 2009, [2] as a rider to the National Defense Authorization Act for 2010 (H.R. 2647). Conceived as a response to the murders of Matthew Shepard and ...
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A man who orchestrated one of the most gruesome hate crimes in U.S. history was set to be executed Wednesday for the dragging death of James Byrd Jr. nearly 21 years ago.
John William King was executed on Thursday for the killing of James Byrd Jr in Jasper, Texas, in 1998. White supremacist executed in Texas for brutal dragging death of black man [Video] Skip to ...
Participated, along with Lawrence Brewer and John King, in the brutal 1998 murder of James Byrd Jr., in which Byrd was chained to a truck, and his body was dragged with the moving vehicle. David Henry Tuck 06716680 / 01403389 Serving a life sentence. Eligible for parole in 2036.
The case of James Byrd Jr. dates back to 1998. Like Arbery, Byrd had been murdered by three white men. Byrd accepted a ride from Shawn Berry, Lawrence Brewer and John King, all of whom were white ...