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| White Supremacist Executed for Texas dragging :S
I know we're talking 1998 and TEXAS, but I can't believe this stuff still happens! White supremacist executed for Texas dragging
As far as I'm concerned, his punishment only gave him relief and closure from something he would've had to have lived with for the rest of his life. They should've made his punishment more agonizing and longer-lasting; like the way him and his KKK buddies did for that black man. Quote:
By MICHAEL GRACZYK
updated 1 hour 26 minutes ago
HUNTSVILLE, Texas — White supremacist gang member Lawrence Russell Brewer was executed Wednesday evening for the infamous dragging death slaying of James Byrd Jr., a black man from East Texas.
Byrd, 49, was chained to the back of a pickup truck and pulled whip-like to his death along a bumpy asphalt road in one of the most grisly hate crime murders in recent Texas history.
Brewer, 44, was asked if he had any final words, to which he replied: "No. I have no final statement."
A single tear hung on the edge of his right eye.
He was pronounced dead at 6:21 p.m., 10 minutes after the lethal drugs began flowing into his arms, both covered with intricate black tattoos.
Brewer's parents and two of Byrd's sisters were in attendance.
Appeals to the courts for Brewer were exhausted and no last-day attempts to save his life were filed.
Besides Brewer, John William King, now 36, also was convicted of capital murder and sent to death row for Byrd's death, which shocked the nation for its brutality. King's conviction and death sentence remain under appeal. A third man, Shawn Berry, 36, received a life prison term.
Story: Stigma lingers in infamous town as Texas prepares execution for dragging death
"One down and one to go," said Billy Rowles, the retired Jasper County sheriff who first investigated the horrific scene. "That's kind of cruel, but that's reality."
Byrd's sister, Clara Taylor, said someone from her brother's family needed to be present to watch Brewer die so she planned to be in the death chamber.
While the lethal injection wouldn't compare to the death her brother endured, she said, "knowing you're going to be executed, that has to be a sobering thought."
It was about 2:30 a.m. on a Sunday, June 7, 1998, when witnesses saw Byrd walking on a road not far from his home in Jasper, a town of more than 7,000 about 125 miles northeast of Houston. Many folks knew he lived off disability checks, couldn't afford his own car and walked where he needed to go. Another witness then saw him riding in the bed of a dark pickup.
Six hours later and some 10 miles away on Huff Creek Road, the bloody mess found after daybreak was thought at first to be animal road kill. Rowles, a former Texas state trooper who had taken office as sheriff the previous year, believed it was a hit-and-run fatality but evidence didn't match up with someone caught beneath a vehicle. Body parts were scattered and the blood trail began with footprints at what appeared to be the scene of a scuffle.
"I didn't go down that road too far before I knew this was going to be a bad deal," he said at Brewer's trial.
Fingerprints taken from the headless torso identified the victim as Byrd.
Testimony showed the three men and Byrd drove out into the county about 10 miles and stopped along an isolated logging road. A fight broke out and the outnumbered Byrd was tied to the truck bumper with a 24½-foot logging chain. Three miles later, what was left of his shredded remains was dumped between a black church and cemetery where the pavement ended on the remote road.
Brewer, King and Berry were in custody by the end of the next day.
The crime put Jasper under a national spotlight and lured the likes of the Ku Klux Klan and the Black Panthers, among others, to try to exploit the notoriety of the case. Byrd's killing continues — many say unfairly — to brand Jasper more than a decade later.
King was tried first, in Jasper. Brewer's trial was moved 150 miles away to Bryan. Berry was tried in Jasper.
Brewer, from Sulphur Springs, about 180 miles to the northwest, had been convicted of cocaine possession. He met King, a convicted burglar from Jasper, in a Texas prison where they got involved in a KKK splinter group known as the Confederate Knights of America and adorned themselves with racist tattoos. Evidence showed Brewer had violated parole and was involved in a number of burglaries and thefts in the Jasper area.
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09-21-2011, 05:25 PM
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What a piece of shit. People like that don't deserve to live, glad they put him to the death penalty.
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He still got off to easy
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when was his death sentence announced?
looks like he deserved it from the descprition of the carnage
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fucking good riddance, one less scumbag steve
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Does this have anything to do with the "innocent man" being put on death row I keep hearing about on Twitter all day  | |
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OK totally different person
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This is the guy people are freaking out about on Twitter Troy Davis case - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia | |
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^ No that is unrelated, that was about a black man sentenced to death for accused murder.
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...That's what I said....
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How come people are put on "death row" but it takes years and years before the state ends up killing them?
They are guilty, doesn't this just mean bye-bye?
Not that I support the death penalty, but I'm pretty sure by dragging it on, it's really not fun for the victims' families. Also kind of a waste of tax dollars or what not.
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i remember this incident. I was in 10th grade when it happened and i did a presentation regarding it. Made me sick to my stomach. Glad the fucker was put to death, too bad it wasnt as harsh as the way byrd died.
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What an absolutely horrible way to die. Ugh...
...and the guy (not a hate crime) who dragged & killed Grant De Patie gets 5 years in BC. Convict Responsible For “Grant’s Law” To Be Released | Unambiguously Ambidextrous
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Originally Posted by Culverin How come people are put on "death row" but it takes years and years before the state ends up killing them?
They are guilty, doesn't this just mean bye-bye?
Not that I support the death penalty, but I'm pretty sure by dragging it on, it's really not fun for the victims' families. Also kind of a waste of tax dollars or what not. | It has a lot to do with the appeal process being fricking lengthy. They want to try and make sure as best they can they're executing someone who's guilty. It does seem like it takes an exorbitant amount of time though.
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