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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 ...
Method of execution Requested meal James David Autry: Murder: 1984: Lethal injection: A hamburger, french fries and a Dr Pepper. Odell Barnes Jr. Murder: 2000: Lethal injection "Justice, Equality, World Peace." Because it was not a meal at all, Barnes' request could not be granted. Lawrence Russell Brewer: Murder: 2011: Lethal injection
Sidney Gleason. Murder of Miki Martinez and Darren Wormkey in February 2004. 17 years, 278 days (first sentence; overturned) 8 years, 133 days (second sentence) After the Kansas Supreme Court overturned his death sentence, the United States Supreme Court reinstated it on January 20, 2016. James Kraig Kahler.
King, along with Shawn Berry and Lawrence Brewer, was accused of kidnapping Byrd while he hitchhiked in Jasper, Texas, on June 7, 1998. ... Brewer, also a white supremacist, was executed in 2011 ...
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Texas for murder, and participation in a felony resulting in death if committed by an individual who has attained or is over the age of 18. In 1982, the state became the first jurisdiction in the world to carry out an execution by lethal injection, when it executed Charles Brooks Jr.
Brent Brewer, who has spent three decades on death row, is scheduled to be executed Thursday evening for the 1990 murder of Robert Laminack. The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles unanimously ...
A Georgia clemency panel has voted against allowing a death row inmate, who is set to be executed later this week, to spend the rest of his days in prison.. Willie James Pye, 59, has been on death ...
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Oklahoma since 1976.. The total amounts to 124 people, and all were executed by lethal injection. Of the 124 people, 121 were males and 3 were females who all had been convicted of first-degree murder.