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James Byrd Jr. (May 2, 1949 – June 7, 1998) was an American man who was murdered by three 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 3 miles (5 kilometers) behind a Ford pickup truck along an asphalt road.
John William King was executed Wednesday in Texas for the gruesome hate crime murder of a black man more than 20 years ago. White Supremacist Executed for 1998 Dragging Death of James Byrd. Jr [Video]
The Act is named after Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. [6] Shepard was a student who was tortured and murdered in 1998 near Laramie, Wyoming.The attack was widely reported due to him being gay, and the trial employed a gay panic defense.
John William King orchestrated one of the most gruesome hate crimes in U.S. history when he and two others killed James Byrd Jr. nearly 21 years ago.
James Byrd Jr. was a Black man murdered in 1998 by three white men who dragged him behind a pickup truck, two of them open white supremacists. The day before the comment, jurors had convicted John William King of Byrd's murder. [15]
John William "Bill" King, 44, is scheduled to die at 6 p.m. (2300 GMT) by lethal injection at the state’s death chamber in Huntsville. King along with Shawn Berry and Lawrence Brewer were ...
John William "Bill" King, 44, was put to death by lethal injection and pronounced dead at 7:08 p.m. (0008 GMT Thursday) at the state’s death chamber in Huntsville, the Texas Department of ...
On October 22, 2009, the United States Congress passed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, and on October 28, 2009, President Barack Obama signed the legislation into law. [8] [9] Dennis and his wife Judy announced Wyoming's votes in the roll call at the 2020 Democratic National Convention. [10]